I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

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.

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

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.