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Find your feet?

- In this second wave of crisis, the pain has to be shared, Guardian.co.uk, August 5, 2011.

2. Journalists, in the BBC and elsewhere, have come to accept that where a big story is breaking, John Simpson will probably be there first.

In the competitive world of foreign affairs reporting, a nose for the right place at the right time is invaluable. John Simpson's remarkable gut instincts have drawn him into the thick of the action time and time again, and earned him scoops which are the envy of his colleagues.

His most recent, and most demanding, major foreign assignment saw him smuggled into Afghanistan as the Taleban fell, disguised as a woman.

He raised a few eyebrows, however, as he strode into Kabul through a cheering throng, declaring: “It was only BBC people who liberated this city. We got in ahead of Northern Alliance troops.” The BBC said later that “John was being ironic”.

John spent a rather lonely childhood, brought up by his father in London and Suffolk after his parents separated. He found his feet at Cambridge, where he edited Granta magazine.

He joined the BBC at 25, as a sub-editor in the Radio Newsroom, before becoming a political reporter. He attracted publicity early, when the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson apparently punched him in the stomach when John asked him whether he was about to call an election.