Alex Thomson
Syria: on our own
“At the risk of repeating myself, there’s some nonsense being pedalled on social media about the story we broke recently in Aqrab.”
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
‘Fear and anxiety’ in Damascus
A bomb in Damascus narrowly misses a primary school, leaving teachers and pupils to cope with the aftermath.
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Alex Thomson
Damascus international: your flight to Aleppo is now departing
“We were able to film an airport which – contrary to the impression that has gone global – is not just open, but functioning.”
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Alex Thomson
Winning the YouTube PR war in Syria
There are two sides to every war – but that’s not coming out of the coverage of the conflict in Syria at the moment, writes Alex Thomson from Damascus.
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Alex Thomson
Back on the road to Damascus
Syria’s capital has changed profoundly since Alex Thomson last visited in the summer, with checkpoints now scattered across the city and the rumble of fighter bomber attacks in the distance.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: were they cheating football, and the taxman?
I leave shortly, once more, for a city rather drier and a good deal more violent than Glasgow. But before I do let me leave you with the question – were Rangers cheating?
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Alex Thomson
This is the IDF: We will blow up your house in five minutes
“Why do you want to attack our house? What for?” “Do not start asking why. Get out of the house.”
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Alex Thomson
Journalists among the injured in Gaza
A man with two small girls, aged five at most, runs sweating from a burning building into a waiting friend’s car. When we ask him what happened he just says: “Ask Israel.”
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Alex Thomson
Patten: BBC needs to get itself back on track
As another storm batters the BBC, Lord Patten wants the corporation to earn its broadcasting spurs once more.
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Alex Thomson
Piercing the wall of silence surrounding Rangers ‘fans’
Letters filled with HIV-contaminated razor blades – just one of the potential threats faced by Gary Allan QC, who sat on the Scottish Football Association panel which passed punished Rangers.
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Alex Thomson
Barajas: overlit, overheated, underused, underwhelming
Barajas Airport itself, one giant folly to Euro-borrowing on a grand scale against a dream that has never come true. Quite probably never could.
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Alex Thomson
Kelvin MacKenzie demands Hillsborough apology from police
Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie says he has suffered “personal vilification for decades” because of the mistakes of the South Yorkshire Police
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Alex Thomson
The man who ‘saved my life’ at Hillsborough
Alex Thomson talks to a Liverpool football fan caught up in the events at Hillsborough in 1989: he survived the crush that led to the deaths of 96 people, thanks to a man who helped him scale a wall.
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Alex Thomson
Tranquil scene of yesterday’s deaths in Haute Savoie
The scene of yesterday’s brutal slaughter of four people, including three members of the UK family, in the Haute Savoie region of France, is now one of peace and tranquillity, writes Alex Thomson.
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Alex Thomson
Afghanistan: Why ‘green on blue’ killings are on the rise
Why are rising numbers of Afghan soldiers turning on their American army mentors? Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on ‘green on blue’ killings.