UK -Politics & World Current Affairs

April 28, 2010

Only Brown can turn a benign encounter into ‘Disaster of the Year’ !!

Filed under: Democracy, Current Affairs Comment, Journalism & Media, Media, Britain — Adel Darwish @ 10:23 pm

What happened to Gordan Brown today, was not just a ‘ Brown moment’ or the kind of gaffe that Prince Philip fires to keep us hacks amused, no it is an example of how New Labour own spin not just comes back to haunt them, but it’s made them captive to their own control freakery and their spin, their obsession with controlling situation and keeping the leader ‘on message’was to blame for what happened to Brown today. (more…)

Comments (0)

January 25, 2010

Prime Minister G Brown has sense of humour – ‎Official.‎

Filed under: Journalism & Media, Media, Britain — Adel Darwish @ 6:31 pm

Believe it or not, we did laugh, twice, during the ‎Prime Minister’s monthly presser this morning.

(more…)

Comments (0)

March 10, 2009

ADEL DARWISH RESIGNED FROM JUST JOURNALISM 3 MONTHS AGO

Filed under: Palestinian Israeli dispute, Middle East, Democracy, Britain and the Middle East, Current Affairs Comment, Free-speech & humanrights, Journalism & Media, Media — Adel Darwish @ 5:11 pm

I was not planning to put this information on my blog, since I thought it to be a personal matter. but since my name has been mentioned, in the past few days, in the media both in print and in blogs and forums, in association with Just Journalism, an organisation from which I resigned as a director on 31 December 2008, I had to alert every one to the fact that I have nothing to do with the organisation any more.
A significant part of the information published was wrong and some claims were false regarding both my identity and my association with Just journalism.
(more…)

Comments (0)

February 1, 2009

Reflections on Gaza war from my hospital bed*©

Filed under: Palestinian Israeli dispute, Middle East, Britain and the Middle East, Current Affairs Comment, Journalism & Media, Media — Adel Darwish @ 1:09 am

*This the original piece I wrote before the subs cut and changed it.

Spending Christmas and New Year bound to my sickbed by tubes and drip-feeds, with a mobility of an Egyptian mummy following a complicated surgery on the spine, my heart played with the usage of the word ‘siege’, as I reflected on the conditions of the silent majority of non-partisan Gazans in the thick of a bloody war.
(more…)

Comments (0)

July 23, 2008

UK Media coverage of the Middle East : The Art of Balance

Filed under: Palestinian Israeli dispute, Middle East, Britain and the Middle East, Current Affairs Comment, Media — Adel Darwish @ 4:36 pm

My fellow reporters covering the Middle East, admit that the narrative of reporting Israel has changed in the British media, making the job of Israel’s new ambassador to London an unprecedented challenge.
(more…)

Comments (0)

UK -Politics & World Current Affairs

April 28, 2010

Only Brown can turn a benign encounter into ‘Disaster of the Year’ !!

January 25, 2010

Prime Minister G Brown has sense of humour – ‎Official.‎

March 10, 2009

ADEL DARWISH RESIGNED FROM JUST JOURNALISM 3 MONTHS AGO

February 1, 2009

Reflections on Gaza war from my hospital bed*©

July 23, 2008

UK Media coverage of the Middle East : The Art of Balance

Blogroll