Blog posts by year and monthJanuary 2010
Posts (3)
Kabul: City Number One - Part 7
ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES - PART ONE Afghanistan didn't just defeat the Soviet army. It reached out and corrupted and corroded the Soviet Union's faith in itself. Above all it destroyed what was left of the dream that communism was the future universal model for the world.
THE TRAIN OF TERROR
Here is an extraordinary piece of film. It is a live outside broadcast of a British army simulation of an attack on a train in Britain. It went out at prime time on a BBC programme called Saturday Night Out. And it happened in 1956. I have tried to find out whether the British government an...
YEMEN - THE RETURN OF OLD GHOSTS
What I find so fascinating about the reporting of the War on Terror is the way almost all of it ignores history - as if it is a conflict happening outside time. The Yemen is a case in point.
