Mildly surprised to see former BBC World Service boss Jamie Angus re-surfacing as a trustee of the right-wing think-tank, the Henry Jackson Society, in the UK. He's clearly fine about the organisation's funding; the latest charitable accounts show £1.2m income in 'donations and legacies', half of which is a donation from the Jackson mothership, the Henry Jackson Society Inc, in the USA. Those details are all the public gets.
Jamie left the BBC in 2022. He joined Al Arabiya News as Chief Operating Officer, and left their service in December 2024.
One of the HJS's current media assets is Maj. (ret.) Andrew Fox, often to be seen on GB News and TalkTV. In August last year, he caused a stir with a long post headed “When does a journalist become a legitimate military target? Maybe not often enough.”
In his post, Fox argued that Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, was a legitimate target not only because he was “an active member of Hammas' Al-Qassam Brigades” – a claim originating in the Israeli government - but “because he was an Al Jazeera journalist”
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