David Pratt

Foreign Affairs Editor

David Pratt is a journalist, photographer and broadcaster with four decades experience of covering foreign affairs. Specialist areas include Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab and Islamic world, conflict, security and humanitarian issues. He is currently Contributing Foreign Editor with The Herald on Sunday and Sunday National. Among many awards he has twice been named Reporter and Feature Writer of the Year in the Scottish Press Awards and also been named Journalist of the Year.

David Pratt is a journalist, photographer and broadcaster with four decades experience of covering foreign affairs. Specialist areas include Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab and Islamic world, conflict, security and humanitarian issues. He is currently Contributing Foreign Editor with The Herald on Sunday and Sunday National. Among many awards he has twice been named Reporter and Feature Writer of the Year in the Scottish Press Awards and also been named Journalist of the Year.

Latest articles from David Pratt

Gaza has been effectively closed off to international media barring a few carefully orchestrated “embedded” visits by a handful of overseas journalists

comment David Pratt: Calls for international media access to Gaza need to be louder than ever

A FEW days ago while going through some old documents I came across one of many press cards issued by the Israeli Government Press Office (GOP). One in particular caught my eye, issued as it was in 2005 specifically for me to cover what was then dubbed Israel’s “disengagement” from Gaza.

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A growing number of Democrats appear to doubt Joe Biden's candidacy with every hour that passes, writes David Pratt

COMMENT David Pratt: Democrats face 'Hunger Games' type battle to choose new leader

BY the time this article goes to press, US president Joe Biden might well have stepped down from his re-election bid. While for now Biden remains adamant that he will be the Democratic Party’s nominee, a growing number of the party faithful appear to doubt his candidacy with every hour that passes ...

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Donald Trump moments after an assassination attempt on his life

COMMENT David Pratt: Capturing that 'decisive moment' is as powerful as ever

SOME regular readers of this column are perhaps unaware that alongside my role as a writer I’ve worked as a war and documentary photographer throughout my career in journalism.

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Concern about Joe Biden's ability to lead the country is only increasing as the campaign continues, writes David Pratt

COMMENT David Pratt: These are precarious times for Joe Biden and Nato

YOU couldn’t help but notice a prevailing sense of foreboding at last week’s Nato summit. At times, the unease in Washington was near palpable and a consequence of two things. The first was the uncertainty hanging over US President Joe Biden’s fitness for office as a tough election campaign looms.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky

COMMENT Keir Starmer goes to Washington – and finds himself in at the deep end

MORE often than not views on the value of Nato membership fall into two opposing camps...

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Marine Le Pen, leader the French far-right, arrives at the National Rally party headquarters, Monday, July 1, 2024 in Paris.

comment David Pratt: The ominous resurgence of Europe’s far right

FOR some time now – years, in fact – the warnings have been coming thick and fast. Somehow, though, the prevailing belief was that the rallying of political forces to keep the right far from the levers of power – known in France as a cordon sanitaire (or firewall) – would suffice to hold such forces at bay ...

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Biden's candidacy has been called into question as of late, writes David Pratt

COMMENT David Pratt: If Joe Biden is to drop out of presidential race then now is the time

TO go or not to go, that is the question that must be haunting Joe Biden right now. Not that the incumbent US president has so far shown any signs of throwing in the towel on his re-election bid ...

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have a close eye on three elections

COMMENT David Pratt: Ukraine could still be biggest loser from three big Western elections
ON the face of it, the past few days would appear to have been fairly good for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen exits a voting booth

COMMENT David Pratt: Why France's election may be more worth watching than the UK's

SOME say it’s a bold decision and fully respects the French constitution when deadlock prevents the government from fully functioning. Others say it represents a massive political gamble that President Emmanuel Macron could well regret if it puts his credibility and authority on the line for the three years that remain of his second term.

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