About Me
After studying English at London University, I joined a local newspaper in East London before getting my first job in Fleet Street, as a reporter on the Daily Express. I spent 16 exciting years on the paper, ending up as defence and diplomatic correspondent, travelling around the world. In 1986 I was offered the job of Whitehall correspondent on The Times, but was soon promoted to defence correspondent, and in 1998 to defence editor. Over the next 12 years I covered six wars for The Times, first in Bosnia and Kosovo, and later in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2010 I was posted to Washington as The Times’ first Pentagon correspondent. I returned to London in 2013 and continue to write on defence and intelligence issues for the newspaper.