Alex Thomson
“For 30 years I said nothing. But now, if these children meet someone who denies the Holocaust they can say, ‘No – Solly Irving came to see us. He stood before us. He told us’.”
Alex Thomson
Expect Gen Dempsey and many other voices to grow louder in the coming weeks that more must be done with ground forces if IS is to be dislodged.
Alex Thomson
On the point just outside Oban a freelance cameraman joins us as we watch the bright red, Norwegian-flagged fishing vessel nose out gently from Oban harbour.
Alex Thomson
Like unaccompanied minors – not in an airport but in life – they stand there as the Unicef Jeep rolls into the village, silently holding out their nameplates.
Alex Thomson
The need for proper investigation of Serena’s death is obvious and pressing and should happen at once. Conclusions without evidence are wrong, stupid and distasteful.
Alex Thomson
You may think, having lost both legs and an arm in Afghanistan, that a serving paratrooper determined to return to this regiment would be welcomed back as a hero. You may think so.
Alex Thomson
The simple and obvious question to ask today is this: would parliament be discussing bombing Iraq for a third war if the USA were not already doing so?
Alex Thomson
Whatever happens in Scotland, more devolution will happen because of the English state’s last-minute panic and there are signs that the English regions want a piece of the action.
Alex Thomson
Brett King told me that if he tried to see his son Ashya, he would be arrested because, he said, he is a ward of court.
Alex Thomson
A lot of emotion surrounds the case of Ashya King. But leaving emotions aside, should the British state give its citizens carte blanche to make medical decisions?
Alex Thomson
From everyone here, tales of how the IS come into your town or village and offer you the chance to convert to Islam, get out of town and your home – or be killed by bullet or beheading.
Alex Thomson
Summer happens. Get over it. Surely we don’t need safety advice for normal weather events?
Alex Thomson
We were supposed to leave Afghanistan with some kind of credible military forces to stop all this from happening. That does not look very credible.
Alex Thomson
Tony Blair’s people insist he will earn no money from his advising of “President” Sisi of Egypt, who seized power in the recent coup and sealed it in a phony election.
Alex Thomson
In Donetsk, eager crowds vote on independence from Kiev. The clear plastic ballot boxes make it easy to see which way most people are going.