Tim Mansel
British journalist Tim Mansel has worked in international broadcasting for more than 20 years. Covering sports and other stories the world-over, Tim has traveled to places as diverse as Barbados, India, Ecuador and Italy to cover topics just as varied. Tim has trained journalists in Afghanistan, covered neo-Nazis in Germany, and has been freelancing for the past 10 years. He is a former contributor to the BBC as well as World Soccer Magazine. A sports enthusiast, he grew up loving soccer and cricket as a boy, but fell head over heels for baseball on a chilly night in San Francisco in 2001.
Europe braces for ACTA storm
Hundreds of protests against ACTA are planned in Europe. Germany says it will not sign the agreement -- unless the EU gives it cover. ...
Londoners “getting their hands dirty” at Occupy
Occupy Wall Street has spawned many imitators – hundreds of them, in countries all over the world. In London Occupy LSX (London Stock Exchange) claims to be the longest running, the tented encampment having been in situ outside St Paul’s Cathedral since October 15 last year. Not for much longer though. Last week the High ...
Saab’s (latest) eleventh hour reprieve
The roller coaster ride continues for the former General Motors subsidiary Saab. Dumped by GM in 2010, Saab was picked up by the Dutch car maker Spyker, but it too is now trying to get rid of the loss-making Swedish outfit. Saab thought it had found a buyer in the form of two Chinese companies, ...
Inspired by Detroit: photographing abandoned buildings
"Collapse is of immense interest to the general public." That's the view of Swedish historian turned photographer Jan Jörnmark. He tells us why ...
An “inconceivable crime” in Germany
They were crimes that had mystified the German police for over a decade; the “Döner Killings”, so called from doner kebab, a Turkish dish made of lamb meat). The victims were mainly of Turkish origin; they ran small businesses, some of them fast-food kiosks. A female police officer was shot dead; and there was a ...
Trollywood: a Swedish success story
The venerable Saab automobile company is teetering on the brink of closure. But its hometown, Trollhattan, is enjoying its relatively new role of Sweden's motion picture capital ...
What next for Sweden’s Detroit?
This week GM said “no” to a deal that would have sold the Swedish carmaker Saab to two Chinese companies. Loyal Saab fans are in uproar. But how about the people on the ground in Trollhättan, Sweden’s Detroit? ...
A Greek tragedy ends taboo
Leaders of the world’s 20 top industrial nations have been meeting this week in the swish French resort of Cannes – think red carpets and movie starlets. But it’s Greece who’s been carpeted this week – in particular by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy. Offered a multi-billion Euro bailout ...
Blunt words from the mother of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
Reaction was swift Wednesday to the news that the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had lost his appeal in Britain’s High Court against extradition to Sweden, where he has been accused of rape. The Wikileaks revelations have embarrassed and angered a wide range of governments. They’ve been welcomed, however, by defenders of the freedom of speech. ...
Falling asleep in Sweden’s cockpits
The U.S. economy may be in trouble but there are still some sectors where the future looks bright. According to a report in USA Today earlier this year the airline industry is on the brink of what could be the biggest surge in pilot hiring in history, a “dramatic turnaround” according to one industry specialist ...
Starling trouble over Europe
The humble starling is causing uproar on its annual migration south, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers. A modest bird, measuring less than 8 inches, the starling doesn’t fly alone – it travels with hundreds of thousands of others forming vast, dark, swirling clouds in the sky. The people of ...
Red Sox versus Liverpool
Once again the Boston Red Sox appear cursed after what one writer has called “the greatest September collapse in major league baseball history.” Fingers have been pointed in several directions: the pitching staff; the established star players; the manager; the general manager. They’ve also been pointed across the Atlantic. One Sox fan put it this ...
Man versus machine
What’s happening to the umpire in the age of the instant video replay? In baseball, man still has the upper hand. But in other sports, technology is proving seductive. Tim Mansel takes a worldwide look ...
