The summer is most certainly over. It is sometimes hard to tell in the UK but I’ve cunningly learned over time that you know for sure when the rain keeps falling but your feet start freezing. Experience is everything! The silly season of journalism was late this summer. The queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics …
Monthly Archive: September 2012
Sep 20 2012
An interview with Chris Walker
Christopher Walker had a busy summer reporting for GRNlive. What with the Queen’s Jubilee, the Olympics, and Julian Assange taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, we had our veteran correspondent zigzagging across London relentlessly in our schizophrenic weather, be it torrential rain pouring on the Queen’s flotilla, and stifling sun beating over the heads of …
Sep 12 2012
Missing the Spirit of the Moment
The British exhilaration over the Olympic and Para-Olympics games must have puzzled some spectators. In July they unanimously converted overnight from a grumpy and grunting “this is going to be dreadful, I’m getting out of London until it is over” kind of mood, to a state of national exhilaration which threw them back – as …
Sep 03 2012
Mind the Gaff
Politicians, especially US republican ones, are known to put their foot in it when it comes to world facts. George W Bush has broken some world records when it comes to factual gaffs and us, journalists, were the first to get on his case for it. Mitt Romney is constantly challenging Bush Junior’s title, with …
World News
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- Macron presses ahead with charm offensive despite expanding sleaze scandal - Telegraph.co.uk June 24, 2017Telegraph.co.ukMacron presses ahead with charm offensive despite expanding sleaze scandalTelegraph.co.ukEmmanuel Macron projected a dynamic new image of France and wooed European leaders with a charm offensive that made him the uncontested star of his first EU summit this week. But while the recently elected president smiled and displayed his close ...In jab at Trump, Schwarzenegger and […]
- Iraq forces help hundreds of civilians escape Isis-held Mosul as UN warns of 'unimaginable' risk to life - The Independent June 24, 2017The IndependentIraq forces help hundreds of civilians escape Isis-held Mosul as UN warns of 'unimaginable' risk to lifeThe IndependentIraqi forces have opened exit routes for hundreds of people to flee the Old City of Mosul with the United Nations voicing alarm at the rising civilian death toll and the “unimaginable” risks trapped residents face. Troops […]
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- French journalist dies of injuries after reporting on Isis war in Iraq - The Independent June 24, 2017The IndependentFrench journalist dies of injuries after reporting on Isis war in IraqThe IndependentA French journalist has died of her injuries after she was hit by a landmine blast in Mosul earlier this week, her employer France Télévisions has confirmed. Veronique Robert, 54, a Swiss national, died in a military hospital outside Paris where she […]
- The Latest: UK PM pledges help for hundreds of evacuated - Washington Post June 24, 2017Washington PostThe Latest: UK PM pledges help for hundreds of evacuatedWashington PostLONDON — The Latest on response to deadly tower-block fire in London (all times local):. 2:55 p.m.. British Prime Minister Theresa May says the government is supporting local authorities in London to make sure residents evacuated from four public ...Grenfell Tower - London Evening […]
- Qatar blockade exposes rifts in Trump administration's 'peculiar' foreign policy - The Guardian June 24, 2017The GuardianQatar blockade exposes rifts in Trump administration's 'peculiar' foreign policyThe GuardianUS secretary of state Rex Tillerson meets with then-Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef in May. Tillerson has warned the Gulf states to make their demands of Qatar 'reasonable and actionable'. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP. US foreign policy ...UAE threatens Qatar with 'divorce' as under-fire nation […]