Alex Thomson
In Eastern Ukraine, a referendum…but not as we know it
The world is ranged against it. It has achieved the hitherto impossible feat of uniting Kiev and Moscow in agreement. But the Donetsk referendum is going ahead.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
Mariupol: “It is civil war”
After deadly gun battles in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, residents are manning barricades and waiting to see what Ukrainian forces do next.
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Alex Thomson
Want a Rangers season ticket? That’ll be cash or cheques only
The Rangers financial statement makes for interesting reading today in a number of areas, particularly for season ticket holders.
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Alex Thomson
Central African Republic: EU to send some peacekeepers – at last
The EU move is a start but the numbers are not enough, not nearly enough to end the slide into violence in the Central African Republic
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Alex Thomson
War in Afghanistan: the facts
The Afghan conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 450 British military personnel. What kind of country will coalition troops leave behind?
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Alex Thomson
Two attacks in two days: insurgents target Afghan election
At a gun battle in Kabul Alex Thomson reports how Kabul reacts, if you can you get off the streets regardless of where the attack is happening – you get off them fast.
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Alex Thomson
L’Wren Scott’s death: let’s pause – but not to gawp
The death of L’Wren Scott is not a moment to peer into private grief but a time to reflect that everyone we meet is fighting secret battles.
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Alex Thomson
Armed forces are incapable of dealing with bullying
New powers for the MOD ombudsman are just a “sop” and will make “no real difference at all” says a former army officer.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: HMRC states its case
A lot of folk wish to know why Hector the Taxman is expending considerable sums of our dosh to pursue Rangers FC over alleged mass tax avoidance.
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Alex Thomson
CAR: Colonel Bogey and the interim, interim president
It’s not every day in Bangui that you hear the stirring sound of Colonel Bogey or The Great Escape theme belted out by a military band.
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Alex Thomson
Extreme violence and religious hatred – another day in CAR
Violence has left swaths of CAR unpopulated. And in its place, there is something depressingly familiar – straightforward religious hatred.
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Alex Thomson
Hanging laundry on helicopters as Chadians flee the Central African Republic
Soldiers from Chad are escorting Chadian nationals out of the Central African Republic as looting and violence continues.
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Alex Thomson
CAR: religious violence makes housemates of the archbishop and the imam
Heard the one about the Catholic archbishop and the imam who decided to move in together? It’s not a joke in the war-torn Central African Republic.
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Alex Thomson
Ominous signs in Central African Republic
It looks like the president has fled, a million people have been displaced and armed militia are patrolling camps of refugees: Central African Republic appears to be deteriorating – and the world waits with baited breath.
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Alex Thomson
How to combat sectarian bigotry in Scotland
What strikes me as odd is that it took the intervention of Channel 4 News to shut down David Limond and the vile sectarian and racial hatred he spewed out night after night on the internet broadcast “Rangers Chat”.