War reporting

Breakfast is in Jerusalem. I’ve spent the previous day filming a report in the Occupied West Bank about a spate of deadly attacks by mobs of Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages. They were triggered by the killing of an Israeli teenage boy by Palestinians, but fit within a wider rise in settler violence, emboldened by the rise of extremist political allies and the atmosphere around the war in Gaza.

If we ever needed reminding that truth is the first casualty of war the conflict in Ukraine has supplied an abundance of misinformation and propaganda. War has also, wrote the historian AJP Taylor, just as reliably been the mother of invention for everything from battlefield hardware to advances in conflict journalism.