News: November 2007 Archives
Inside Out - November 07
One of the most important debates in journalism is far from over at the Frontline Club. It's about whether the war in Iraq and the dangerous conflicts in Somalia and Gaza and elsewhere have made it nearly impossible for correspondents......more
French Century - An Illustrated history of Modern France
Brian Moynahan was the Sunday Times roving correspondent in the years before Rupert Murdoch bought the paper and turned it into the mail order catalogue that Don McCullin called it under the editorship of Andrew Neil. (McCullin's public observation was......more
3 Para
British Paras are renowned more for prowess on the battlefield than media savvy. However, that reputation may need to be revised with the publication of 3 Para by Patrick Bishop. This book is an account of 3 Para Battle Group's......more
Pakistan Teeters
"We're watching a lot of cookery programmes and cricket!" cried one of my oldest Pakistani friends when I arrived at her house a week after General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule.All Pakistan's private news channels were taken off air......more
Working the warzones
The Frontline Club may have been away from home territory when it ventured to New York last month, but the spirit of debate that has come to characterise its London events made the trans-Atlantic trip admirably.About 200 people gathered at......more
Hillary's Comeback
It would make a great film, but it makes an even better story: the wife of a former president, humiliated by his philandering and lies in office, is poised to succeed him, and in the process become the first female......more
Balkans smouldering again
The Balkans are back in the news again - Kosovo is set to declare independence, Serbian paramilitaries are threatening to 'protect' the province, in Bosnia people are said to be stockpiling food in fear of a resurgence of violence.I recently......more