Alex Thomson
The battle to report the facts of Syria’s war
Shell bursts would occur every few minutes, at all parts of the town. They fell from the southern fringes to the northern end of the town with utter unpredictability.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: Confluence of interest
Alex Thomson blogs on the confluence, rather than conflict, of interest in the ongoing Rangers saga.
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Alex Thomson
International relations unravel beyond Syria
Alex Thomson blogs on the international ramifications of the twists and turns in the Syrian conflict.
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Alex Thomson
Your guide to what the hell is going on in Syria
The police state is alive and well. Most people appear either to support the regime still or they are hedging their bets and don’t want to confront men with AK47s as yet.
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Alex Thomson
Behind the scenes of Syria’s propaganda war
Alex Thomson blogs on the battle to win the propaganda war in Syria – and what is motivating foreign interference.
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Alex Thomson
Tense times in Damascus as fighting erupts again
Alex Thomson and his team have a close encounter at a Syrian checkpoint.
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Alex Thomson
Damascene Vision
“Traffic cops, immaculate and in designer shades, politely ask to see our Ministry of Information permission. Presently, sensibly in the shade of some trees, a not-so-very-secret mukhabarrat secret policeman will radio our information to his desk from our translator.”
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: the leaked e-mail
Here’s the email leaked to Channel 4 News last Thursday the details of which I blogged on Friday. Some club chairmen say that Mr Regan should now resign as a result of what’s going on here, back on June 23rd. That is a matter for them.
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Alex Thomson
Football chairmen living in ‘fairytale world’
Just into Glasgow after an illuminating day speaking to club chairmen and officials of Scottish football which right now appears in a state of something like civil war.
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Alex Thomson
Will there be a Hampden vote on Friday 13th?
Will there not? Will there be a meeting even? Nothing is certain. My sources inside the Scottish Football League reckon that the voting for Division 3 is pretty much around the 50-50 mark right now. But any amount of events across coming days can alter that and probably will.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: passion and commitment above all reason
So it is that I find myself covering a venerable Scottish sporting institution, which has caused disappointment, heartache and agony to countless people in recent times and in which the central recurring name is Murray, blogs Alex Thomson.
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Alex Thomson
Potential conflicts of interest at the heart of Scottish football
Channel 4 News has a Companies House list of Rangers shareholders for 2008 and 2010. They prove, for instance, that the current Airdrie chairman and president of the Scottish Football League, James William Ballantyne, had 568 Rangers shares in 2008 when chairman of Airdrie.
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Alex Thomson
People at Hampden foresaw Rangers meltdown
If Rangers Newco is simply invited into the First Division, what’s to stop any other club simply going bust and demanding the same treatment.
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Alex Thomson
UN report paints dark picture of Syria’s escalating violence
The report plays out two scenarios for the massacre, both of which it says are possible.
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The power of pictures in Syria’s bloody war
From teenage graffiti to shell fragments kept as mementos, Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson talks through some of the most powerful pictures he took during his recent visit to Syria.
