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Mark Urban
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Host @crisisroompod.bsky.social writes for Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 12h
thanks Johnny
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The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 2d
We want to hear from you! 🫵🏼

Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social will be answering your questions in our very first Q&A bonus episode very soon. Keep your eyes peeled…👀

Got a question? Drop it in the comments below 👇🏻

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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 1d
Quite a week for those covering the Chinese espionage trial in the UK. Has our government lost the art of balancing our strategic interests? markurban.substack.com/p/britains-c...
Britain's China Crisis
Discussing the dilemmas of hunting Beijing's spies
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 2d
Gaza update at 11.30am UK time:
- a ceasefire has gone into effect 90 minutes ago
- Israel has moved to its Phase 1 withdrawal line (but still occupies >50% of the Strip
- the IDF has pulled out & is standing down some reserve units
- aid deliveries set at 600 trucks a day
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The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 2d
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The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 3d
🚨 New episode alert!

Former National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill joins Amber, @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social for a rare, wide-ranging interview – from Trump to terror attacks, and migrant returns deals with the Taliban

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Markus Balázs Göransson @mbgoransson.bsky.social · 5d
This is a really interesting piece, well worth your time.
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 5d
How 7th October changed the Middle East and wider world markurban.substack.com/p/two-years-...
Two Years That Changed the Middle East
Some thoughts about this anniversary
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 5d
How 7th October changed the Middle East and wider world markurban.substack.com/p/two-years-...
Two Years That Changed the Middle East
Some thoughts about this anniversary
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The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 9d
“I’m surprised the march leaders haven’t said it’s not appropriate.”

After the Manchester synagogue attack, Amber & @markurban.bsky.social debate Palestine Action’s planned march and whether Sir Mark Rowley should ask Home Sec Shabana Mahmood to cancel it

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The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 9d
🚨Special episode alert

Following the Manchester synagogue attack, the team unpacks what happens next. Plus, @markurban.bsky.social responds to rising anti-Semitism, and The Crime Agents' Andy Hughes breaks major news from the scene

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#manchester
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The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 10d
Assassinations & apologies - spying in the Middle East is a dangerous game...

The team explain how secret operations work - plus @markurban.bsky.social & @mpolymer1.bsky.social explain how they almost crossed paths thanks to a botched Mossad operation

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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 10d
On this week’s @crisisroompod.bsky.social

we discuss bungled Middle East assassinations, Trump’s peace plan and that extraordinary gathering of generals in America t.co/UP28nkCqeO
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-crisis-room/id1815989479?i=1000729602372
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 11d
I think I might swap Baghdad for Rome or Istanbul! But completely understand the appeal of the appeal of the other two
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 13d
Depends on the incident. Recent Danish and Norwegian ones have been associated by some with Russian ships offshore. But frankly you could recruit locals to do it
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 13d
there's quite a few experimental systems Richard, and I think there have been promising trials results. but someone needs to grip it, empower the armed forces to get systems into action quickly
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 13d
wrong paradigm. a new sector of companies if offering drones and counter-drone solutions. It was said there were 200 firms doing the latter at the recent DSEI fair. Most don't operate like the old 'primes'. They are keen and hungry so solutions should have been found after Lakenheath
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 13d
If you wondered whether the UK could do any better than Denmark if its airports were being buzzed by drones
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The Crisis Room Podcast @crisisroompod.bsky.social · 13d
'The UK hasn't raised its game'

Amber & @markurban.bsky.social dive into the UK’s drone defence and ask - could we actually stop a hostile drone if it entered British airspace?

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#uk #droneattack #defence
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 13d
I know I know 😬
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 14d
thank you
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 14d
oh - on CNN or her podcast?
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 14d
The question of moralising - how a press pack can fall in behind a particular view of a conflict is a fascinating one. In Bosnia for example it was down to a small number of thought leaders who influenced the wider pack
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 14d
thanks Anna 👍
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Anna Macleod @akcmacleod.bsky.social · 14d
Great read
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 14d
Newly released secret files show how the government tried to thwart publication of my book Big Boys' Rules (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
Mark Urban: How the secret state tried to ban my book on the Troubles
Declassified files show that my exposé of SAS tactics against the IRA frayed nerves in Whitehall. But it was an ally’s betrayal that really surprised me
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 14d
How foreign news defaults to 'goodies and baddies', and baulks at coverage of the morally ambivalent markurban.substack.com/p/who-are-th...
Who are the Good Guys?
What coverage of Syria, or the lack of it, tells us
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 14d
Newly released secret files show how the government tried to thwart publication of my book Big Boys' Rules (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...
Mark Urban: How the secret state tried to ban my book on the Troubles
Declassified files show that my exposé of SAS tactics against the IRA frayed nerves in Whitehall. But it was an ally’s betrayal that really surprised me
www.thetimes.com
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