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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Victor Keegan

In the engine room

Caught a brief moment with Richard Norton-Taylor, our veteran security affairs editor and playwright, between his 11am deadline ("the earliest in over 30 years") on the deployment of UK troops in Afghanistan next year, and a 2pm deadline on the controversial hosting of one of the world's biggest arms fairs in London tomorrow.

He has already jointly written a longer story with colleagues on terrorism.

How he manages to be so up-to-date about the Test match between England and Australia as well is beyond me.

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