Matt Frei

"I've never seen an American president, not just in our lifetime, in the last two centuries of American history, be that critical of a British prime minister." @RNicholasBurns tells me "a fundamental mistake is: disparage your allies, make life difficult for them at home, you really can't expect them to be with you in a fight that they didn't start

Kemi Badenoch's surreal car crash interview on #C4News Gary Gibbon, "You said you want the RAF to be allowed to launch missiles against Iranian targets" Kemi Badenoch, "If they are striking British bases, yes" Gary Gibbon, "You want them more involved?" Kemi Badenoch, "It's not an escalation it's a defensive position" Gary Gibbon, "I think that's joining in a war, not a war we were consulted on" Kemi Badenoch, "This is true" Gary Gibbon, "This is not a war that has been thought through" Kemi Badenoch, "I agree with that" Gary Gibbon, "Do you agree that it is an illegal war?" Kemi Badenoch, "We are in it whether we like it or not" Gary Gibbon, "Will you answer if it's legal?" Kemi Badenoch, "I've already answered multiple questions on whether it is legal or not" "We are in it whether we like it or not" Gary Gibbon, "So whatever Donald Trump starts, we join in?" Kemi Badenoch, "Let's be clear, Iran is an enemy of this country" "Prime Minister Keir Starmer maybe thinks he can sit on the fence and hope it can go away, that's not happening" "You talk about inflation, oil shocks, these things happen" Gary Gibbon, "They happen because of this war"

The US/Israel/Iran war as interpreted by Chinese martial arts cartoonists....

@JohnSimpsonNews I remember him well from Sarajevo too. A softly spoken raconteur who looked like a Roman statue come to life. He was indeed a very generous colleague. RIP

So very sorry to hear that my good friend John Burns of the NYT has died. We first met during the siege of Sarajevo. It annoyed me he got an egg for breakfast when we were so hungry. Then I found he was battling cancer — and still reporting from the most dangerous place on earth.

Really excited to share the paperback design for ‘Allies at War’: an account of how Churchill and Roosevelt, despite myriad disagreements, made the world a safer place by combatting unprovoked aggression and creating a global system based on international law.

‘A revelatory study of Second World War alliances.’ Adam Sisman on #AlliesatWar in the Observer. theguardian.com/books/2025/apr…

Urgent message from @WCKitchen

Yesterday my wonderful friend Paul Conroy ⁦@reflextv⁩ died of a heart attack. After years taking pictures and reporting in some of the world’s most dangerous places, he was visiting family in Devon. All of us who knew and loved him are devastated. He was 61.

@JackieLongc4 Please watch this! Important!!

He was "manipulative and entitled" and left her paralysed. She is incredible. Trudi Burgess is determined to raise awareness about the corrosive power of coercive control, which nearly cost her, her life. #DomesticAbuseAwareness channel4.com/news/exclusive… via @jackielongc4

My colleague Marie Colvin was murdered by the Assad regime in Syria 14 years ago today. Journalism is not a crime. RIP Marie. 💔

Remembering my lovely crazy friend Marie

A little insight into how the media colluded with the Royals for years - and what those “interviews” with them were really about linkedin.com/posts/ben-de-p…

When the PM was in Beijing he said the issue of Jimmy Lai’s imprisonment had been mentioned to Xi JinPing. Little detail on how robustly. The fact that Lai, a UK citizen, still got 20 years speaks volumes!!

Hong Kong (i.e. the Chinese government) has sentenced the 78-year-old media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years for daring to criticise the collapse of HK’s freedom. Jimmy has UK citizenship. There can be no seriously friendly relationship between Britain and China while he is in prison.

"I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it.... You have to think of it as part of your country’s survival system." A Lament for the Washington Post by the peerless ⁦@Peggynoonannyc⁩ wsj.com/opinion/a-lame…

Unbelievable that a man who spent US$75m on a film no-one wants to see about Melania Trump has just fired almost all the foreign correspondents on the newspaper he owns. You might think nothing was happening in this world. @JeffBezos @washingtonpost #SaveThePost

This is great - brings home the need for foreign correspondents @JeffBezos #savethepost

I’ll vouch for the amazing work for @washingtonpost by @NastyaGalouchka and her colleagues in #Ukraine. #SaveThePost @JeffBezos

Xi Jinping purges top general, the 11th in 12 months - our @Channel4News story channel4.com/news/xi-jinpin…