Jumping Jack Flashbang, it’s gas gas gas..
Holy Land? More like Holy Fu.. On arrival, I’d been told about the “Friday protests” where there’s always a few scuffles between security forces and those with anger to vent so I wasn’t surprised to be told I was to cover one this week. My assigned protest was to be the weekly rumble between fired-up [...]
West Bank Story
Yesterday, I hitched a lift with AFP driver Mano and headed into West Bank for a press conference and another grip’n’grin with man-of-the-moment US envoy George Mitchell at the Palestinian HQ, the Mukata. Heading into West Bank was quite an eye-opener for me as, until I saw it myself, I had assumed that it would [...]
Trying not to bungle Tzipi
With a slim idea of what daily life will entail for me now beginning to form, I took the chance to head back to the Old City this morning for further exploration. Aside from pre-determined jobs that are called through to me, I know that the rest of the time I’m just “on duty”. While [...]
Likud into shape
With my grasp of Israeli politics now so strong, it’s comparable to the vice-like grip of a sleeping toddler, I headed off on my first real assignment today as Benjamin Netanyahu formally launched the Likud Party’s election campaign. I say first real assignment but this doesn’t include yesterday’s mission to cover the funeral of a [...]
Middle Eastern promise
So with a rather surprising twist, tonight I find myself in my hotel room in Jerusalem at the start of a two week assignment to the local bureau to assist in the coverage of the upcoming elections. Never having been to Israel before, it was somewhat of a shock to the system to have the [...]
Got wood?
If you go down to the beach today, you’re sure of a big surprise.. After an unsuccessful attempt to catch Jonathan Ross heading in for his first day back at work, I was sent down to the East coast to have a look for some of the wood that was reported to have begun washing [...]
There’s a new sheriff in town..
So eleven weeks to the day after winning the US Presidential election, Barack Hussein Obama II was declared the 44th President of the United States of America. As during the night of the election itself, I had to find a way to illustrate the British interest in the story so headed up to Tottenham in [...]
