‘I don’t trust Boris’: Ex-Today show host John Humphrys savages the PM accusing him of being ‘great at bluster’ but no good at ‘delivering’ John Humphrys said he is ‘not a fan’ of Boris Johnson and did not vote for him The former Today show host added the Prime Minister is no good at ‘delivering’ … Read more
We can’t say we weren’t warned, can we? The streets of London — and other big cities too — are swarming with Russian spooks. Some of them much scarier than others. The sort who might jab Russia’s enemies with the poisoned tip of an umbrella or smear a deadly nerve agent on a door handle. … Read more
We can’t say we weren’t warned, can we? The streets of London — and other big cities too — are swarming with Russian spooks. Some of them much scarier than others. The sort who might jab Russia’s enemies with the poisoned tip of an umbrella or smear a deadly nerve agent on a door handle. … Read more
The cyclist, an elderly peasant farmer, swerved into the path of our minibus on the quiet road in rural China. He went flying. He was clearly badly injured. We shouted at the driver to stop and get the man to hospital. But our Communist Party minder ordered him to drive on. It was 1979, and … Read more
The cyclist, an elderly peasant farmer, swerved into the path of our minibus on the quiet road in rural China. He went flying. He was clearly badly injured. We shouted at the driver to stop and get the man to hospital. But our Communist Party minder ordered him to drive on. It was 1979, and … Read more
When the BBC asked me back in the mid-Seventies to leave the United States and open a television news bureau in South Africa, I knew exactly what I would not do. I would not become one of those ghastly privileged whites who expressed their disgust for apartheid but enjoyed its benefits. I would not, for a … Read more
When the BBC asked me back in the mid-Seventies to leave the United States and open a television news bureau in South Africa, I knew exactly what I would not do. I would not become one of those ghastly privileged whites who expressed their disgust for apartheid but enjoyed its benefits. I would not, for a … Read more
He was just what you would expect a New York cop to look like. Big and tough and chewing gum with his gun strapped to his bulging belly and a bored look on his face. I was a slightly overawed 27-year-old who’d arrived in the U.S. for the first time in his life the night … Read more
He was just what you would expect a New York cop to look like. Big and tough and chewing gum with his gun strapped to his bulging belly and a bored look on his face. I was a slightly overawed 27-year-old who’d arrived in the U.S. for the first time in his life the night … Read more
As close encounters go, it was the sort most of us have probably experienced at least once over the past few weird weeks. The lines in my small local supermarket had been clearly marked. There was one customer in front of me and she was fishing around in her bag for her credit card. I … Read more