No two wars are identical.

No two wars are identical.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.