Don Murray
Don Murray's World
- James Bond and the fantasy that is Britain's soul
- May 29, 2008
- Earthquakes and other disasters in the age of the long lens
- May 16, 2008
- Russia moves into orbit around its binary czars
- May 6, 2008
- London's mayoral race, not for the faint of heart
- April 29, 2008
- Scrap metal thieves plunder Europe
- April 24, 2008
- Is today's world big enough for Le Monde?
- April 17, 2008
- Ireland's no-so-Teflon Taoiseach
- April 4, 2008
- Belgium and the problem with problem countries
- March 27, 2008
- 'The hand of history'
- March 20, 2008
- When all of Russia is your stage
- March 12, 2008
- In Medvedev's Russia, 'you need friends'
- March 5, 2008
- Can bountiful Georgia escape the Russian bear?
- February 29, 2008
- Europe's secret: Tax evasion on an industrial scale
- February 22, 2008
- The bursting of Britain's housing bubble
- February 15, 2008
- Nicolas of France takes a bride
- February 8, 2008
- Life behind Italy's walls
- February 1, 2008
- The revenge drama that is Diana's legacy
- January 24, 2008
- Terrorism and the secret agent
- January 8, 2008
- Mussolini's legacy: The mayhem that is Italian soccer
- January 7, 2008
- Carving the royal turkey and other Christmas beasts
- December 21, 2007
- In Britain, Canoe Man trumps the Lyrical Terrorist
- December 10, 2007
- Riding with Rocinante: 'It's me or the crucifix'
- December 4, 2007
- Russia's forced march into 'managed democracy'
- November 29, 2007
- Britain's Gordon Brown: Channelling Paul Martin
- November 22, 2007
- Writers and their ghosts
- November 16, 2007
- In Belgium, even the Smurfs are confused
- November 6, 2007
- Balfour's legacy: Creating Israel from empire's needs
- November 2, 2007
- A lament for Mona Lisa in a throwaway world
- Oct. 30, 2007
- What to do with ex-PMs and all that pent-up bile?
- Oct. 17, 2007
- 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown'
- Oct. 3, 2007
- Watching Burmese monks march, from a safe distance
- Sept. 28, 2007
- An insider asks: Where did Iraq's billions go?
- Sept. 18, 2007
- Murder, martyrs and legacies: Putin, politics and Politkovskaya
- Aug. 31, 2007
- Sweating out the memories of East Berlin
- Aug. 23, 2007
- In the heat of an Italian summer
- Aug. 3, 2007
- Caesar's secretary
- July 18, 2007
- A Fawlty Towers moment
- July 2, 2007
- In the bedrooms of the state
- June 23, 2007
- Guernica, 70 years later
- April 26, 2007
- The problem with rich, angry Russians
- April 21, 2007
- Looting Babylon, the anniversary
- April 9, 2007
- Iran and the dangers of gunboat diplomacy
- March 30, 2007
- Odious commerce, Britain and the slave trade
- March 26, 2007
- Britain's Lords: 'We are here to annoy people'
- March 15, 2007
- Doubly subversive, the poet as spy
- March 7, 2007
- Genocide and the muddle that is international law
- Feb. 27, 2007
- A new resistance in France
- Feb. 19, 2007
- Tony Blair and the scandal of the weak
- Feb. 7, 2007
- Advice to Serbia: Swallow the biggest frog first
- Jan. 29, 2007
- Global cooling as Britain flees Washington's hot embrace
- Jan. 18, 2007
- Churchmen and the secret policeman's list
- Jan. 12, 2007
- The sadistic poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
- Dec. 19, 2006
- Words stand between churches
- Dec. 9, 2006
- Lebanon, assassination central
- Nov. 27 2006
- When history is the judge
- Nov. 21 2006
- Archive
- Older entries from Don Murray
ABOUT THIS AUTHOR
Biography
During his 30 years at CBC, Don Murray has filed hundreds of reports in French and English from China, Europe, the Middle East and the Soviet Union. He is currently based in London. He wrote A Democracy of Despots, documenting the collapse and rebirth of Russia. From Berlin, he reported the Bosnia peace agreement talks and, based in London, the death of Diana and Northern Ireland peace talks. He authored Family Wars for the International Journal, paralleling Northern Ireland and Bosnia. He has covered wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
