Host @crisisroompod.bsky.social writes for Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
Mark Urban
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WATCH - Trump expects Europe to rearm but the US is now sending it to the back of the queue for weapons deliveries. My latest video for the Times www.thetimes.com/video/origin...
The Continent’s strategic dependence has become its greatest liability
How America emerges as a military power from this Iran war markurban.substack.com/p/the-giant-...
Missiles flying in the Gulf, Israeli strikes in Lebanon, and yet we’re closer to a lasting ceasefire?! @krishgm.bsky.social and I host this week’s @channel4news.bsky.social pod with guest Lina Khatib looking at indicators that a deal may indeed be imminent youtu.be/yyuqpYTyZqc
Who won the Iran war? It's not even over yet but that's the question so many are asking. Here's Part 1 of my own analysis open.substack.com/pub/markurba...
Your weekly @channel4news.bsky.social Indicators pod has dropped co-hosted by @krishgm.bsky.social and I, taking in falling oil reserves, Britain buying Russian jet fuel, and Negar Mortazavi joins us to analyse whether is a workable Iran peace deal coming in to view at last youtu.be/gvL8_JIX9sk
Are we finally getting this Defence Investment Plan or what?! how the long struggle for money makes a mockery of the idea that we are now on a war footing open.substack.com/pub/markurba...
This is an authoritative analysis by an outstanding journalist the BBC was careless enough to lose.
International law is dead
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Force has become a priority in the region
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Nagar Mortazavi
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"As you cut your editorial workforce, your ability to find things out diminishes... as foreign bureaux close, and specialist staffs at home reduce, your editors and therefore consumers become less well informed." Late to this vg piece by @markurban.bsky.social. markurban.substack.com/p/new-dg-new...
How America emerges as a military power from this Iran war markurban.substack.com/p/the-giant-...
As the new DG arrives, BBC staff brace themselves for another round of cuts. How have decades of living under the axe affected its journalism? open.substack.com/pub/markurba...
