My role in the BBC’s Hamas controversy
Also this week: Margaret Thatcher’s candour and the loss of a wise friend.
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John Simpson is a foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News.
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Behind Xi Jinping’s Great Wall of Iron
How China’s Uyghur population became the target of a merciless campaign of collective punishment.
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John Simpson’s Diary: In Afghanistan food is scarce, poverty is spreading and fear is everywhere
The full savagery of the old Taliban hasn’t returned. But sanctions are causing immense suffering.
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Afghanistan is on the brink of humanitarian disaster – and the West is culpable
It is not the Taliban but the millions of Afghans facing starvation who will be most hurt by sanctions…
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John Simpson’s Diary: crossing the Khyber Pass, why the Taliban is a problem for Imran Khan, and my biblical comeback
The Taliban’s leaders want to show the group has modernised – but it will be the same as it…
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The Taliban’s new reign of terror
The US retreat ensured a victory for the militant group. Despite talk of moderation, a creed of savage misogyny…
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Why the Chinese Communist Party is stronger than ever 100 years after its creation
Under Xi Jinping, the party appears unassailable and increasingly hostile to the West.
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The BBC must strive to be impartial but it should never be timid
The Emily Maitlis row has shown the challenge the BBC faces: to be stimulating and challenging without turning into Fox…
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Dancing on the Berlin Wall
A return to the scene of the 20th century’s greatest accidental revolution.
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