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.
Alex Thomson explains developments at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal.
As the Post Office Inquiry continues to hear testimony, more and more details are coming to light about who knew what when.
Until now, Post Office and Fujitsu bosses had avoided the cameras over the Horizon IT scandal. That scandal saw more than 900 subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for theft, false accounting and fraud between 1999 and 2015.
A former Post Office investigator has told the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal that he and his colleagues did not “behave like mafia gangsters”.
It’s official: 2023 was by far the world’s hottest year on record, according to the European Union’s climate service.
We spoke to Hisham Mhanna, from the International Committee of the Red Cross who is in Rafah in Gaza.
One of the wrongly convicted postmasters was Vijay Parekh. He was falsely accused of stealing over £70,000 and spent four months in prison.
We spoke to the pollster J. Ann Selzer, who tracks national political opinion.
It’s just two words and they appear on just one page of an eleven thousand word document, but the inclusion of “fossil fuels” is historic. The final agreement of COP28 might be a compromise – but it has sent a clear signal that we need to stop burning the fuels which are so harmful to the planet.
The climate deal which could determine the future of the planet is furiously being worked on at the UN’s COP28 summit.
We will not go silent to our watery graves – that’s the warning from one of the small island nations most at risk from climate change – after a pledge to “phase out” fossil fuels was removed from the COP28 final agreement.
The Government has promised that in future no-one will suffer the same injustices as the survivors and bereaved relatives of the Hillsborough Disaster.
At least 117 countries have pledged to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030.
We spoke to former US Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore.
World leaders can’t save the planet with a fire hose of fossil fuels – that was the warning from the UN chief Antonio Gutteres to the COP28 summit in Dubai, after scientists said that 2023 was set to be the warmest year in history.