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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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June 6, 2026
At which point will we begin to call Bibi president of the U.S.?

Are we now about to enter a new phase?

June 6, 2026
Iran: il tempo dei dialoghi è finito, signor Trump

Il vero problema per Trump è l’ignoranza e l’incomprensione dell’Iran da parte sua e della sua squadra.

June 4, 2026
Trump’s call to Bibi probably didn’t happen

Donald Trump’s explosive telephone call to Benjamin Netanyahu has taken the internet by storm. But can we really believe it’s true?

June 2, 2026
Iran: time for talking is over, Mr Trump

The real problem for Trump is both his and his team’s ignorance and misunderstanding of Iran.

May 29, 2026
The art of the deal author has no clue about how to make a deal

The more Trump threatens, the more it is clear he is weak and desperate, writes Martin Jay.

May 25, 2026
Is western media guilty of war crimes?

The recent lack of reporting of the Ukraine strike on a school is worrying but what is more troubling is just how far western media will go to distort the facts of the war

May 23, 2026
ICC court’s credibility plummets further over Israel’s West Bank revenge

ICC is a fake court that operates on the basis of only holding poorer countries in Africa to account — or more specifically, their leaders — and not Israel nor the U.S.

May 21, 2026
Can Trump really bomb Iran now?

The recalibration of relations between the GCC and Iran, and their views of Israel, will be Trump’s legacy.

May 18, 2026
UK is in a tailspin with its latest political scandals

Britain, it would seem, is in the midst of a political quandary.

May 16, 2026
How Farage’s unique style of politics allows him and his party to cash in

Farage went ahead with his new model in the parliamentary system as he had two chief advantages from players on the sidelines, Martin Jay writes.

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