John Simpson

So glad my former BBC Panorama colleague Peter Taylor has been made a CBE for his dogged, courageous and deeply honest reporting of Northern Ireland over the decades.

At the onset of WWI, almost 1.3 million Indians fought in every theater of the conflict. But, only one of them lorded the skies over Europe. This is the story of Indralal Roy, India's own Top Gun Maverick. 1/21

At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking food from two aid distribution hubs in southern Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: When it comes to films about the Titanic, for my money, A Night To Remember (1958) is far superior to Titanic (1997). Just saying. #Titanic

UN Human Rights Office: At least 798 people have been killed since the end of May while seeking food at distribution points operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and other humanitarian convoys.

Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media moghul who voluntarily returned to HK to support pro-democracy activists, is ill in jail. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy tells the Commons it would be catastrophic for China’s international reputation if Jimmy Lai were to die in prison.

We are evolving backwards

Today is the anniversary of Operation HUSKY - the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 - and the first taste of battle for Canada's gunners. Beyond infantry and armoured brigades, the 1st Canadian Divisional Artillery bore a weighty burden—supplying relentless preparatory fires,…

phenomenal movie... only natural/ available lighting ; hard to think of another movie that gets inside the period so deeply. Ryan O'Neill though ( sigh) . Leonard Rossiter wonderful. the Thackeray book rather wonderful too tho v tongue in cheek;Kubrick makes it more profound

Another satisfied customer. Bye.

The Guardian reports that Israel hit the Al-Baqa coffee-house in Gaza on Monday with a 500-lb US-made MK-82 bomb, killing up to 36 people and injuring dozens more. It says experts in international law believe the use of such a weapon against a civilian target may be a war crime.

Some people think the BBC biased. Often the criticism comes from those those holding a conscious and unconscious bias themselves. That's just how it is.

Recording the opening of tonight’s ’Unspun World’ at 11.05 on BBC Two: the entire team (Kate Cornell, producer; Ben Watt, exec producer; Dave Murphy, camera; Marek Polaszewski, camera; and me). Last programme of the season, but we’ll be back in September.

Tim Davie has been a good D-G at a hard time for the BBC — even if some of us haven’t agreed with all his decisions. In the interests of the Corporation, he should ignore the calls for his resignation, many of which are self-interested. And the Govt should back him publicly.

Good, insightful article by James Holland and my friend Hamish de Bretton-Gordon about the serious deficiencies of Putin’s army. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/2…

As a young reporter in Northern Ireland I twice saw kids squirming on the ground in agony after being shot in the knees by the IRA. The memory still haunts me. Kneecap should be free to sing whatever they want - but why do they choose to celebrate such a vicious form of torture?

Good article in today’s Guardian about the white South African Afrikaners I know — not the victims of Trump’s imagining: “We are not the big victims in this story. We are privileged, we are very grateful and we are thankful for everything we have.”

brilliant!!

'It's a killing field': IDF soldiers ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Chimp’s reaction to seeing a careraker, one who rescued and cared for him years ago.. 🥺