John Simpson is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year and won countless other major television awards. He has written several books, including four volumes of autobiography, Strange Places, Questionable People , A Mad World, My Masters, News from No Man’s Land and, most recently,Days from a Different World. The Wars Against Saddam, his account of the West’s relationship with Iraq and his two decades reporting on that relationship encompassing two Gulf Wars and the fall of Saddam Hussein, is also published by Pan Macmillan. He lives in London with his South African wife, Dee, and their son, Rafe.