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Martin Jay

Martin Jay is an award-winning British journalist based in Morocco where he is a correspondent for The Daily Mail (UK) who previously reported on the Arab Spring there for CNN, as well as Euronews. From 2012 to 2019 he was based in Beirut where he worked for a number of international media titles including BBC, Al Jazeera, RT, DW, as well as reporting on a freelance basis for the UK’s Daily Mail, The Sunday Times plus TRT World. His career has led him to work in almost 50 countries in Africa, The Middle East and Europe for a host of major media titles. He has lived and worked in Morocco, Belgium, Kenya and Lebanon.

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May 24, 2025
UK-EU deal might be a smart move by Starmer. Who’s to say?

There is an extraordinary amount of stupidity within politics in the UK these days and the British public are driving this with their own confusion.

May 22, 2025
Is the British press protecting Sir Keir Starmer over ‘fire boy’?

The incident of a young Ukrainian man torching the British prime minister’s car and property makes a good story, but leaves more questions than answers.

May 16, 2025
Trump’s Middle East theatricals were all about putting Bibi in his place

Trump is literally taking control of U.S. foreign policy in the region and pushing back Israel’s attempts to bomb its way to peace.

May 12, 2025
Cover-ups, lies, smears and fake news from Ursula could be EU’s own suicide pill

Ursula von der Leyen’s political identity – and her vision of the role of the EU – are more and more in line with Nazi Germany.

May 10, 2025
Are EU governments using the FT to send a signal to Trump about Bibi?

What is interesting about Trump’s Middle East visit is that it doesn’t include an Israel stop. The FT opinion piece gives us a clue as to why.

May 4, 2025
Romania hits all-time low with fake elections, manipulated by the EU

Bowes’ arrest and deportation is alarming as it signals a new low on the scumline of EU totalitarianism.

April 28, 2025
Zelensky played his last card with the Crimea stunt. Now what?

It is Zelensky who plays the role of the fake negotiator, who is unable to negotiate anything.

April 26, 2025
Trump’s China plan is like fishing with hand grenades. But what is floating to the surface?

America is heading towards an abyss which it has never seen before and a new all time low of poverty is coming its way.

April 16, 2025
Aranceles de Trump impactarán a sus propias bases sociales

El caso de los aranceles – que estimularán la economía de Estados Unidos – es a penas un caso transparente.

April 14, 2025
Spoils of war: Time for Trump to send off the clowns in Ukraine

Talking directly to Putin across the big table might be the only way forward as the two clowns he has given the task to seem to be only prolonging the agony

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