It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.

I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.