I’ve never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life’s too short.
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
I don’t sit there and speculate. I’m not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.