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John Simpson CBE is an English foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News. He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including 30 war zones, and interviewed many world leaders.

He has twice been the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards.

He has written several books, including five volumes of autobiography: Strange places, questionable people, A mad world, My masters, News from No Man’s Land and Not quite world’s end, and a childhood memoir, Days from a different world. The wars against Saddam, his account of the West’s relationship with Iraq and his two decades reporting on that relationship encompassing two Gulf Wars and the fall of Saddam Hussein, and Unreliable sources: how the twentieth century was reported are also published by Pan Macmillan.