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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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July 25, 2025
FT hit job on Zelensky is a clue as to Trump’s thinking

The all-out hit piece on Zelensky the Financial Times should indicate that something is about to happen in Ukraine 

July 23, 2025
The case for media transparency within the EU just got sexy

A recent report has exposed the European commission guilty of bribing journalist to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars for favourable coverage. How long can this go on?

July 19, 2025
Has the Epstein blackmail racket finally turned on Trump?

Given how naïve Americans are and how venal its press is, anything is possible – even the suicide of Maxwell

July 17, 2025
Netanyahu’s new message to al-Sharaa: ‘Daddy’s home!’

The West is learning that it can’t trust al-Sharaa as most of his CNN makeover and its gestures have proved to be worthless in the shifting sands of the region and its geopolitics.

July 14, 2025
Is the EU itself tired of Ursula von der Leyen’s graft?

The Commission president is so soaked in corruption excrement that she proudly stands tall as the biggest sewer rat in the entire cesspool of EU graft.

July 10, 2025
Can Bibi convince Trump to finish the Iran job?

Can there be anything more repulsive if not comical than Benjamin Netanyahu nominating Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize?

July 4, 2025
The End Game in Iran also means the demise of Trump’s credibility around the world

The Iranians have been fooled more than once in recent years and now they can’t be fooled again.

June 30, 2025
Is Trump ready for the next level of the war between Israel and Iran?

Iran has learnt so much more about its enemy and is looking at when and how a strike on Israel will take place.

June 25, 2025
Is Donald Trump really running the Iran show?

It will be critical how Israel respects the ceasefire. Probably it won’t as it’s often the style of Israel to break the very deals it signs.

June 22, 2025
The West’s four main lies about Iran and Israel

Trump’s bombing of nuclear sites reveals that he and the Israelis were never serious about a deal. And yet, there is much more to this move by him which is yet to be revealed.

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