Michael Binyon

Michael Binyon has been an editorial writer, columnist and foreign correspondent for The Times since 1971. For 15 years he was based overseas, reporting for the paper from Moscow, Washington, Bonn and Brussels before returning to London to be diplomatic editor in 1991 and then becoming the chief foreign editorial writer in 2000. He speaks French, German, Russian and some Arabic and is a frequent broadcaster on BBC radio and television and Sky, and also appears regularly on French, German, Russian and Middle Eastern radio and television as well as Monocle24 radio. A winner of two British journalism awards, he wrote Life in Russia in 1983 and was awarded an OBE in 2000.