Tim Wall

A British journalist and editor who commutes between northeast England and Moscow, Tim Wall is an editor at RT.com.

He has written extensively about Russian politics, business and society since 2003, serving as a member of the Valdai Club, an international group of Russia experts, journalists and academics, from 2009 to 2012. A former editor-in-chief of The Moscow News, Russia’s longest-running English language periodical, and business editor at The Moscow Times daily, he also writes about global economics, the growth of protest politics and the alienation of mainstream media from reality.

He has also lived and worked in Azerbaijan for four years, covering energy geopolitics and regional conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia for Caspian Business News, The Baku Sun and The Azeri Times.

In a previous life, he was editor of British Chess Magazine, an expert chess coach and British under 16 chess champion.

Hey, Gove - leave them teachers alone! Opinion
Back in the 1980s, Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in The Wall’ summed up the frustrations of a generation of young people in Thatcher’s Britain – bullied and fed through a mincer of rote-learning, millions were thrown on the scrapheap of the dole queue.
Apr 1, 2014 08:03
No more heroes anymore? UK media hypocrisy on death of socialist leaders Bob Crow and Tony Benn Opinion
With the death this week of left-wing leaders Bob Crow and Tony Benn, the UK has lost two of its most principled fighters for socialist ideas.
Mar 14, 2014 13:58
'To bomb or not to bomb?' Obama's Hamlet omnishambles Opinion
On the face of it, Barack Obama’s agonized “To bomb or not to bomb?” speech to the American people looked a class act, lacking only Hamlet’s skull and a Shakespearean costume. The reality? He’s lost the argument for strikes on Syria, and he knows it.
Sep 14, 2013 01:11
Little Britain: The mouse that (finally) roared Opinion
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s weekend war was going according to plan.
Aug 30, 2013 14:49

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