John Simpson

John Simpson is a foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News. He is a former editor of Granta magazine.

Afghanistan after the fall

A year since the Taliban took Kabul, they have learned that they cannot shut out the West.

By John Simpson

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The Taliban’s leaders want to show the group has modernised – but it will be the same as it…

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The US retreat ensured a victory for the militant group. Despite talk of moderation, a creed of savage misogyny…

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Under Xi Jinping, the party appears unassailable and increasingly hostile to the West.

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The Emily Maitlis row has shown the challenge the BBC faces: to be stimulating and challenging without turning into Fox…

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A return to the scene of the 20th century’s greatest accidental revolution.

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Thirty years on, the events that took place in Beijing remain misunderstood – and the Chinese government wants to keep…

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Now I was going to stay at the BBC, I had to do an intensive and radical rewrite of…

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In February it became known that Xi was planning to abolish the rule that limited China’s president to two…

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