Lustig's Letter

TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THE WORLD

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Israel-Gaza: again

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First, the horror. Men, women and children, overwhelmingly civilians, who have been living their lives as best they can, now slaughtered, ki...
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Friday, 26 May 2023

Is Ukraine destined to become a frozen conflict?

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  If I were a Ukrainian, I would be reading everything I could find on the history of frozen conflicts.   Korea. Cyprus. China-Taiwan. Israe...
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Friday, 21 October 2022

Where we are now

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  The Conservative party has a death wish. It’s the only credible explanation. Its MPs no longer know what they want, what they believe, or ...
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Friday, 16 September 2022

Why all those people in The Queue are, er, a bit odd

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For the past week, I have been out of London, away from home. Far from the madding crowds – and, of course, far from The Queue. I have been ...
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Wednesday, 17 August 2022

Another 'nasty piece of work' in Downing Street?

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  It now seems all but certain that the Conservative party are about to elect another unprincipled opportunist as their leader and our prime...
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Robin Lustig
Robin Lustig is a journalist and broadcaster. From 1989-2012 he presented Newshour on BBC World Service and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4. He studied politics at the University of Sussex and began his journalistic career as a Reuters correspondent in Madrid, Paris and Rome. He then spent 12 years at The Observer before moving into broadcasting in 1989. He has extensive experience of covering major world events for the BBC, and has broadcast live programmes from Abuja, Amman, Baghdad, Berlin, Harare, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Jerusalem, Kabul, Kosovo, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, Sarajevo, Shanghai, Tehran, Tokyo and Washington. Among the many political leaders he has interviewed are Nelson Mandela, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and Tony Blair. He has won a number of awards, including the 1998 Sony Silver Award for Talk/News Broadcaster of the Year. In 2013 he received the Charles Wheeler award for outstanding contribution to broadcast journalism.
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