Alex is the longest-serving on-screen journalist on C4 News since the channel began. In more than 25 years he's covered over 20 wars; led major investigations and continues to front the programme from around the world.
His journalism has won several BAFTA and EMMY awards; two New York Film and TV Awards and in 2011/12 he was named TV Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society.
He's written two books about the 1991 Gulf War and a travelogue about cycling across India.
He has been External Examiner at Cardiff and currently Bournemouth Schools of Journalism and is Honorary Fellow in Journalism at Falmouth School of Journalism.
We spoke to Anne Clarke, who is chair of the London Assembly’s fire, resilience and emergency planning committee.
We spoke to the President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani and started by asking about her response to more British troops joining the NATO’s force in the country.
The State of Nature report was first published a decade ago. Then, 1 in 10 species were at risk of extinction. Today it’s 1 in 6.
Hunting stags with packs of dogs has supposedly been illegal for almost 20 years – although there are some exemptions.
They want the right to roam to be enshrined in English law – and today activists gathered to mark 20 years since the Land Reform Act. It allowed people in Scotland to wander almost everywhere in the countryside and our chief correspondent Alex Thomson has been out with campaigners who want access to all areas…
While Rishi Sunak was making his speech in Downing street, world leaders gathered at a UN climate summit.
The Prime Minister might be reining back on some of his net zero pledges, but on Friday, 14 UK companies were handed the Government’s first ever carbon capture and storage licences – allowing them to store CO2 in depleted oil and gas fields – locking away the greenhouse gas forever – in theory at least.
Celtic Football club is trying to settle a series of legal claims alleging historical abuse at its Boys Club, according to lawyers.
The prospect of guilt-free flying has got a bit closer – thanks to hydrogen planes developed by a Gloucestershire startup.
They might be called microplastics, but they pose a mega threat to the environment.
He’s said climate change is a lie, that he wants to abolish the central bank and ban sex education to preserve family values.
Conservationists are celebrating the return of a long lost breeding species to the Norfolk Broads.
We spoke to Erica Fischer, an assistant professor of engineering at Oregon State University and expert in what happens when wildfires reach urban environments as we saw in Lahaina.
What we’re seeing in Hawaii is the latest in a string of environmental catastrophes this summer. The alarming frequency of these events has many feeling anxious and despondent about the climate crisis. But one of the UK’s leading climate activists Mikaela Loach says we must re-frame our thinking and see it as an opportunity to…
We spoke to shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock, who has accused the government of not getting a grip on its immigration policy.