A lazy day in the office
Life isn’t always easy for Steve Sweeney, International Editor of the Morning Star . Earlier this year he was detained and interrogated by Turkish police when he landed at an Istanbul airport. Thoughts of what had happened to Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate six months before in the same city flashed through his mind. The Morning Star – quite rightly – is highly critical of the Erdoğan regime in Turkey. But when it comes to regimes that the paper approves of — “anti-imperialist” Venezuela or Syria, for instance, or “socialist” China, Steve’s job is a lot easier. Most of the time he just...