Hugh Sykes
@hughsykes.bsky.social
Former BBC foreign correspondent reporting from
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, N-Ireland, Pakistan, India, South Africa.
Book: http://hughsykes.substack.com
Biog: https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pnq3d
Archive: https://soundcloud.com/hughsykes
Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, N-Ireland, Pakistan, India, South Africa.
Book: http://hughsykes.substack.com
Biog: https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08pnq3d
Archive: https://soundcloud.com/hughsykes
#Refugees #AsylumSeekers
In 2024, 82 refugees died trying to cross the English Channel in overcrowded small boats.
The highest number came from #Afghanistan, followed by #Iran.
There are no safe routes for asylum applications
from either of those countries,
nor from most of the others:
In 2024, 82 refugees died trying to cross the English Channel in overcrowded small boats.
The highest number came from #Afghanistan, followed by #Iran.
There are no safe routes for asylum applications
from either of those countries,
nor from most of the others:
February 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#Refugees #AsylumSeekers
In 2024, 82 refugees died trying to cross the English Channel in overcrowded small boats.
The highest number came from #Afghanistan, followed by #Iran.
There are no safe routes for asylum applications
from either of those countries,
nor from most of the others:
In 2024, 82 refugees died trying to cross the English Channel in overcrowded small boats.
The highest number came from #Afghanistan, followed by #Iran.
There are no safe routes for asylum applications
from either of those countries,
nor from most of the others:
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Auschwitz 80
Two children deep in thought
at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
Auschwitz 80
Two children deep in thought
at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
January 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Auschwitz 80
Two children deep in thought
at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
Auschwitz 80
Two children deep in thought
at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
January 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Barmy Darty Army
World Darts Championship
@paddypower.bsky.social
AllyPally/Alexandra Palace, Haringey, London.
World Darts Championship
@paddypower.bsky.social
AllyPally/Alexandra Palace, Haringey, London.
December 30, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Barmy Darty Army
World Darts Championship
@paddypower.bsky.social
AllyPally/Alexandra Palace, Haringey, London.
World Darts Championship
@paddypower.bsky.social
AllyPally/Alexandra Palace, Haringey, London.
An antidote to machismo #Bollywood action movies:
All We Imagine As Light
by @PayalKapadia86
winner of the Grand Prix at #Cannes2024.
Four lead roles - three women,
and:
Mumbai's railway.
"The city of dreams is really the city of illusions.
But you have to believe in them or you go mad."
All We Imagine As Light
by @PayalKapadia86
winner of the Grand Prix at #Cannes2024.
Four lead roles - three women,
and:
Mumbai's railway.
"The city of dreams is really the city of illusions.
But you have to believe in them or you go mad."
December 15, 2024 at 8:06 PM
An antidote to machismo #Bollywood action movies:
All We Imagine As Light
by @PayalKapadia86
winner of the Grand Prix at #Cannes2024.
Four lead roles - three women,
and:
Mumbai's railway.
"The city of dreams is really the city of illusions.
But you have to believe in them or you go mad."
All We Imagine As Light
by @PayalKapadia86
winner of the Grand Prix at #Cannes2024.
Four lead roles - three women,
and:
Mumbai's railway.
"The city of dreams is really the city of illusions.
But you have to believe in them or you go mad."
And in the courtyard of the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, despite the alleged grim (pilgrim-trap) presence of the severed heads of John the Baptist and of Imam Hussein, children play.
December 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
And in the courtyard of the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, despite the alleged grim (pilgrim-trap) presence of the severed heads of John the Baptist and of Imam Hussein, children play.
Listeners to Edward Stourton discussing religious pluralism in Syria on World This Weekend on @bbcradio4.bsky.social may be interested in these 🎄 photographs I took in the Christian quarter of Damascus in 2006. Almost as gaudy as Ohio.
December 15, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Listeners to Edward Stourton discussing religious pluralism in Syria on World This Weekend on @bbcradio4.bsky.social may be interested in these 🎄 photographs I took in the Christian quarter of Damascus in 2006. Almost as gaudy as Ohio.
An early example of the Selfie Pandemic.
Sending a photograph of yourself
as a Christmas Card
is
weird.
Alternative suggestion: a nice shot of the Downing Street tree. With carol singers, or on its own.
Sending a photograph of yourself
as a Christmas Card
is
weird.
Alternative suggestion: a nice shot of the Downing Street tree. With carol singers, or on its own.
December 11, 2024 at 2:30 PM
An early example of the Selfie Pandemic.
Sending a photograph of yourself
as a Christmas Card
is
weird.
Alternative suggestion: a nice shot of the Downing Street tree. With carol singers, or on its own.
Sending a photograph of yourself
as a Christmas Card
is
weird.
Alternative suggestion: a nice shot of the Downing Street tree. With carol singers, or on its own.
Strange infection of some media
with pompous 'officialese' language;
Prison
has become 'HMP',
in 'HMP Pentonville"
on @bbcnews.bsky.social earlier.
Must Oscar Wilde's famous poem
be renamed
The Ballad of HMP Reading?
with pompous 'officialese' language;
Prison
has become 'HMP',
in 'HMP Pentonville"
on @bbcnews.bsky.social earlier.
Must Oscar Wilde's famous poem
be renamed
The Ballad of HMP Reading?
December 11, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Strange infection of some media
with pompous 'officialese' language;
Prison
has become 'HMP',
in 'HMP Pentonville"
on @bbcnews.bsky.social earlier.
Must Oscar Wilde's famous poem
be renamed
The Ballad of HMP Reading?
with pompous 'officialese' language;
Prison
has become 'HMP',
in 'HMP Pentonville"
on @bbcnews.bsky.social earlier.
Must Oscar Wilde's famous poem
be renamed
The Ballad of HMP Reading?
#Israel's multiple destruction of planes, ships, weapons & ammunition in #Syria shows that @nnetanyahu.bsky.social tolerated the tyrant of Damascus & his arsenal, & was therefore knowingly complicit in #Assad's war crimes.
Which adds to the war crimes charges against the Israeli prime minister.
Which adds to the war crimes charges against the Israeli prime minister.
December 11, 2024 at 12:22 PM
#Israel's multiple destruction of planes, ships, weapons & ammunition in #Syria shows that @nnetanyahu.bsky.social tolerated the tyrant of Damascus & his arsenal, & was therefore knowingly complicit in #Assad's war crimes.
Which adds to the war crimes charges against the Israeli prime minister.
Which adds to the war crimes charges against the Israeli prime minister.
#Syria
If Bashar al Assad's brother Maher is still active,
the backlash in Hama, Homs & Aleppo may be merciless.
In 1982 his father Hafiz suppressed a violent Muslim Brotherhood revolt in Hama.
His chilling methods included flooding their underground hiding places with fuel
& setting it alight.
If Bashar al Assad's brother Maher is still active,
the backlash in Hama, Homs & Aleppo may be merciless.
In 1982 his father Hafiz suppressed a violent Muslim Brotherhood revolt in Hama.
His chilling methods included flooding their underground hiding places with fuel
& setting it alight.
December 6, 2024 at 11:30 PM
#Syria
If Bashar al Assad's brother Maher is still active,
the backlash in Hama, Homs & Aleppo may be merciless.
In 1982 his father Hafiz suppressed a violent Muslim Brotherhood revolt in Hama.
His chilling methods included flooding their underground hiding places with fuel
& setting it alight.
If Bashar al Assad's brother Maher is still active,
the backlash in Hama, Homs & Aleppo may be merciless.
In 1982 his father Hafiz suppressed a violent Muslim Brotherhood revolt in Hama.
His chilling methods included flooding their underground hiding places with fuel
& setting it alight.
The last time I was in
#Afghanistan,
I made reports that included:
A human rights activist
The CEO of a printing company
The CEO of a mineral water company
The founder of a refuge
for wives attacked by their husbands.
All women.
All either exiled, or sabotaged
- by an irrational regime.
#Afghanistan,
I made reports that included:
A human rights activist
The CEO of a printing company
The CEO of a mineral water company
The founder of a refuge
for wives attacked by their husbands.
All women.
All either exiled, or sabotaged
- by an irrational regime.
December 6, 2024 at 1:54 PM
The last time I was in
#Afghanistan,
I made reports that included:
A human rights activist
The CEO of a printing company
The CEO of a mineral water company
The founder of a refuge
for wives attacked by their husbands.
All women.
All either exiled, or sabotaged
- by an irrational regime.
#Afghanistan,
I made reports that included:
A human rights activist
The CEO of a printing company
The CEO of a mineral water company
The founder of a refuge
for wives attacked by their husbands.
All women.
All either exiled, or sabotaged
- by an irrational regime.
I suppose it's inevitable that the Ralph Fiennes theology blockbuster
Conclave
will be misspelled
Concave,
just as the Brendan Gleeson vehicle
Calvary
was billed at my local Odeon as
Cavalry.
On your horse, Messiah!
Conclave
will be misspelled
Concave,
just as the Brendan Gleeson vehicle
Calvary
was billed at my local Odeon as
Cavalry.
On your horse, Messiah!
November 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I suppose it's inevitable that the Ralph Fiennes theology blockbuster
Conclave
will be misspelled
Concave,
just as the Brendan Gleeson vehicle
Calvary
was billed at my local Odeon as
Cavalry.
On your horse, Messiah!
Conclave
will be misspelled
Concave,
just as the Brendan Gleeson vehicle
Calvary
was billed at my local Odeon as
Cavalry.
On your horse, Messiah!
Pity the children.
Kabul, 2013.
They called out "Hello!" to me as I was wandering round Kabul one morning. They wanted to practice their English.
Kabul, 2013.
They called out "Hello!" to me as I was wandering round Kabul one morning. They wanted to practice their English.
November 26, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Pity the children.
Kabul, 2013.
They called out "Hello!" to me as I was wandering round Kabul one morning. They wanted to practice their English.
Kabul, 2013.
They called out "Hello!" to me as I was wandering round Kabul one morning. They wanted to practice their English.
Imagine:.....this 👇👇👇 is prohibited now:
(Photo: Kabul, 2010, but I have nevertheless obscured the teacher's face)
(Photo: Kabul, 2010, but I have nevertheless obscured the teacher's face)
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Imagine:.....this 👇👇👇 is prohibited now:
(Photo: Kabul, 2010, but I have nevertheless obscured the teacher's face)
(Photo: Kabul, 2010, but I have nevertheless obscured the teacher's face)
The Brexit vote was more than e i g h t years ago, and to behave as if it has an indefinite mandate would be profoundly self-harming. Stride shouldreflect on Margaret Thatcher's visionary speech in 1988, opening the single market campaign.
November 15, 2024 at 3:42 PM
The Brexit vote was more than e i g h t years ago, and to behave as if it has an indefinite mandate would be profoundly self-harming. Stride shouldreflect on Margaret Thatcher's visionary speech in 1988, opening the single market campaign.
As someone said on the World at One, the UK has no more or less red tape than other European countries, and the idea that we have more than...Italy!!... is laughable. There is no need to carry on avoiding the huge benefits of the single market & the customs union - the Brexit vote was 8 years ago.
November 15, 2024 at 3:33 PM
As someone said on the World at One, the UK has no more or less red tape than other European countries, and the idea that we have more than...Italy!!... is laughable. There is no need to carry on avoiding the huge benefits of the single market & the customs union - the Brexit vote was 8 years ago.
November 14, 2024 at 11:02 PM
November 14, 2024 at 11:02 PM