Global Security Challenges

Organised by : Talks at Six

Con Coughlin, foreign correspondent for the Telegraph, returns to Talks At Six to give us an update on the Middle East Global security situation including insights on rapidly evolving hot spots Syria, Iran, Palestine and Lebanon.

Con Coughlin

Cons work as a foreign correspondent kicked off in earnest covering the 1983 American invasion of Grenada but soon moved to the Middle East. Having set up the Daily Telegraphs bureau in Jerusalem, he narrowly escaped kidnap in Beirut in 1986, the basis for the his first of many published books which also include biographical based volumes on Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Ayatollah Khomeini and the Assad Dynasty.

Chosen charity

Alban Head Playing Field 

At Watersfield (Coldwaltham, towards Pulborough), this beautifully maintained area of tree-ringed Sussex greenery was donated to the local community in the aftermath of WWI by local landowner, Captain Alban Head. Today its managed by a small local charity, keeping the valued space open for use by dog walkers, youth groups and families as well as the local football and cricket clubs. Find out more.