Every weekday the Telegraph sends a Newsletter focussing on the war in Ukraine to registered readers. I’m including some of my contributions here for your interest. To make sure you receive the whole thing, please register with the Telegraph. We’re also presenting a live Twitter Space at 1pm London time which is scrubbed, given added…
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After two weeks of war, what are the chances of Vladimir Putin’s demoralised troops laying siege to the Ukrainian capital?
This article appeared in The Telegraph on March 11th, 2022 For more analysis, listen into the Telegraph’s Ukraine: The Latest Twitter Space, every weekday at 1pm London time, released later as a Telegraph Podcast Kyiv matters. It is the political, historic and cultural centre of Ukraine. It stands as a beacon of resistance against the Russian onslaught. Russian…
MiG fighter jets would boost Ukraine – but the first challenge is simply getting them into the skies
This article appeared in The Telegraph on March 9th, 2022 Any “rented MiGs” will be a significant boost to Ukraine, but they won’t tip the air balance on their own. Even if the country manages to take delivery of the 28 MiG-29 fighters offered by Poland, it will take some time for the jets to be as effective as they…
On the ground in Belfast: Loyalists warn of ‘biggest threat to peace yet’
With special access to people close to Loyalist paramilitaries, The Telegraph was told Northern Ireland is a ‘matchstick’ away from eruption This article appeared in The Telegraph on May 12, 2021 There is a violent, perfect storm gathering over Northern Ireland. Among hardline Unionists in the Province, the anger is clear, the tension palpable. …
Why a padre’s frozen vigil in Bosnia remains my image of remembrance
Every act of remembrance is different. For service personnel and veterans remembrance is not so much an event as a way of life. Memories of friends lost in the service of their country are not dusted off annually, to be boxed up again afterwards. They are constant. Parallels are everywhere. The story of the Unknown…
Ten years after Afghanistan: do soldiers struggle with what they leave behind or what they come back to?
Ten years ago this month I deployed to Afghanistan on my last operational tour as a British army officer. Nothing on that tour was any more dangerous or troubling than anything else I experienced in my career, but even after a decade it still sticks out as one of the most intense periods of my…
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