More thrills than skills – A half-life in journalism, part 90

Over the next few weeks, allmediascotland.com is to publish, each weekday, edited extracts from the memoirs of Scottish war correspondent, Paul Harris. ‘More thrills than skills: A half-life in journalism’, is being scheduled for publication next year.

ILLOGICAL, I thought.

I haven’t actually been in the country long enough to be in any sort of trouble but I kept my thoughts to myself.

An apparently more senior plain-clothes policeman arrived in the room. Questions, seemingly without point, came one after another.

Stay calm and courteous, I told myself. But then it came.