David Smith was an award-winning correspondent for 30 years for ITN/C4News, then worked as an adviser to Kofi Annan at the U.N.
Now based in Latin America, he writes for The Economist.
He is the author of three books, and sometime Visiting Professor in the United States.
The modern-day conflict of Arab and Jew looks depressingly similar to the old modern-day conflict of Arab and Jew.
America has travelled to yet another new, if truly sad frontier, says former White House Correspondent, David Smith.
In their deafness, the Royal Family missed a precious opportunity with Meghan Markle, says David Smith.
Lionel Messi, like Diego Maradona before him, touches the raw, national nerve of failure and transforms it into the triumph that Argentina so desperately seeks.
The activism that so nearly disrupted the 1978 World Cup Final between Argentina and the Netherlands can help us better handle Qatar 2022, says David Smith.
From a distance, David Smith sees something rotten in the state of Britain.
2021 showed us that we are already living in China’s century, says David Smith.
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize reminds us that truth-telling lies at the heart of humanity’s well-being.
