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  • 25 Mar 2009

    I broke my rule and appeared in underpants

    I crossed channels this morning to ITV. A few months back I was contacted by the Prostate Cancer Campaign to be asked whether I would join my first cousin, Peter Snow, and my first cousin once removed, Dan Snow, to front an awareness-raising campaign.

  • 24 Mar 2009

    Meetings with remarkable men (cont.)

    Sauntering past the west wing of the White House this morning, having passed the Photoshop store on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, I ran into Barack Obama in a rather smart, roundish office.

  • 20 Feb 2009

    The intrepid foreign correspondents run across fields, scale tanks and doorstep world leaders in this trailer for the World News Blog – as seen on last night’s show with Jon Snow.

  • 5 Feb 2009

    Barrio broadcasters

    My visit to the literary festival in Cartegena found three of us in rare coalition meeting kids in the poorer barrios of the town.

  • 20 Jan 2009

    Two million people from around the world descended on Washington DC to watch Barack Obama take office as the USA’s first African-American president.

  • 25 Dec 2008

    In 2008 Iran’s controversial leader delivered an alternative to the Queen’s Christmas Day message on Channel 4, telling British viewers it was time for “fundamental change” to preserve “human values”.

  • 5 Nov 2008

    Though huge challenges lie ahead, Barack Obama and the American people celebrate the achievement of a historic election victory in November 2008.

  • 5 Apr 2007

    When 15 Royal Navy crew were captured by Iranian warships in 2007, Channel 4 News exclusively spoke to the country’s security chief Ali Larijani, who accused the UK of “violating” Iranian territory.

  • 13 Sep 2018

    The two men named by the UK Government as suspects in the Salisbury novichok poison attack claim they were just tourists, trying to sight-see in the city.

  • 14 Jun 2018

    Why one year on Grenfell is still seared into my soul

    London’s elevated six lane Westway races past Grenfell, and in the hundreds of times I had driven past in both directions, I had never given it a thought. A bland landmark. Never wondered who lived there, nor with what this tall building was clad.

  • 9 Jan 2018

    As Kim Jong-un prepares to send a team to the South Korea Winter Olympics, Team GB are also looking to next month’s Games. Back in the summer of 2016, Britain’s Paralympians were triumphant in Rio. The team smashed their own targets, winning 147 medals. Today they set out their stall for the Winter Olympics, with…

  • 7 Nov 2017

    How my expensive obsession for ties began

    This week a show about my ties opens at the Design Museum. I gasped when I saw it. It is small, dense and spectacular – enough colour to light the night sky!

  • 14 Feb 2017

    Democracy, sovereignty and Brexit

    Our unwritten constitution has been tested more in the past six months than at any other time in the past 60 years. It may be time, in this brave new world, to write down what some of these rules are.

  • 18 Jan 2017

    Reporting Presidents: the questions raised by Donald Trump

    He was a ‘B’ movie star and we didn’t think that much of him in those days. Even though he had at least been Governor of California. Looking back, I suppose there were times when Ronald Reagan was regarded at the outset a bit like some now view Trump. Both, after all, promised to make America Great Again.

  • 6 Nov 2016

    As America votes: Clinton or Trump?

    The fact that humanity could be about to secure the eighth woman leader in the world, joining those leading countries from Namibia and Burma, to Britain and Germany is drowned beneath the reality that Mrs Clinton’s character is a very much bigger issue than that of her gender.