Simon Marks Reporting
Ongoing news reports from Washington and elsewhere by Emmy award-winning reporter Simon Marks. Simon's coverage airs on TV and radio networks worldwide and is now also available through all major podcast services. Once called "the harbinger of daily astonishment", Simon is the President & Chief Correspondent of Feature Story News. You can watch his latest TV reporting here.
October 29, 2026 - Democrats' dirty tricks in Alaska Senate race deliver Trump an unexpected gift
Simon's live update for James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC.
October 27, 2026 - US Roundup: Obama's "Cheescake Factory" jibe infuriates Trump
Simon's live update with James O'Brien on the UK's LBC.
October 23, 2026 - "American Week": Trump's top envoy calls Putin a "humanitarian" as Republican midterm losses loom
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme, this week presented by Ben Kentish.
In this episode:
-- despite Trump fervently adhering himself to Vladimir Putin, the UK government expresses confidence that America remains on "the side of freedom".
-- Hegseth besmirches the honour of fallen allied soldiers yet again.
-- Trump engages in racist tirades on the campaign trail.
Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm on LBC, or find it here on demand afterwards.
October 20, 2026 - Violent protests roil France amid curfews as economic pressures mount
Simon's live report for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika" TV, with Vuyo Mvoko anchoring.
October 20, 2026 - Hegseth besmirches the honour of allied fallen soldiers. Again.
Simon's monologue for LBC on Pete Hegseth's shameful comments about allied soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan.
October 20, 2026 - Rubio's obfuscation over Ukraine echoes the Kremlin's linguistic phrasebook
Simon's monologue for LBC's late show in the UK about the haunting similarities that are emerging linguistically between the Trump and Putin administration.
October 21, 2026 - Is Chief of Staff Susie Wiles about to depart Trump's White House?
Simon's live update for The Claire Byrne Show on Ireland's Newstalk.
October 16, 2026 - "American Week": Republicans expect midterm defeat, Trump betrays Zelensky and Katie Zacharia implodes
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.
This week: Republicans know they've lost the midterms; Zelensky accuses Trump of betrayal; and the new White House press secretary predictably implodes.
Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it on demand afterwards.
October 14, 2026 - New White House press secretary has catastrophic debut at the podium
Simon's live report for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC.
October 10, 2026 - Trump and Vance differ over prospect of America's first public execution in 90 years
Simon's live update for Matthew Wright's Saturday morning breakfast programme on the UK's LBC.
October 9, 2026 - "American Week": Trump again threatens the midterms, and Hegseth orders a public execution
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme with Tom Swarbrick. Listen live every Friday at 5.50pm, or find it here on-demand afterwards.
This week:
-- Trump is urged to invoke the Insurrection Act if the Democrats win the midterms
-- Hegseth orders a public, firing squad military execution
-- South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize, infuriating the White House
October 5, 2026 - US scrambles B1 bombers out of RAF Fairford
Simon's live update for "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
October 3, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump sought advice from AI engine Grok over Venezuela invasion
Simon's live chat with Matt Frei on the UK's LBC.
October 1, 2026 - Condemned murderer survives execution in Tennessee in dramatic, fresh blow to death penalty
Simon's live update for South Africa's "Newzroom Afrika" TV with Xoli Mngambi anchoring.
October 2, 2026 - "American Week": Trump belatedly hits the campaign trail, and Tennessee brutally botches an execution
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live at 5:50 every Friday, or find it here on demand afterwards. And also at LBC's Official YouTube page, where you can watch in full HD.
This week: Trump finally gets around to campaigning in the midterm elections, and Tennessee butchers a death row inmate who survives her date with the death chamber.
September 25, 2026 - "American Week": Trump threatens to annihalate Iran, dooms Republicans in midterms, then shows Xi his White House renovations
Simon's weekly chronicle of increasingly unstable events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC.
This week:
-- Trump threatens war crimes in his UN General Assembly speech;
-- Republicans fear a midterm drubbing in 38 days' time;
-- President Xi Jinping trapises to Washington, and Trump shows him all his White House renovations.
September 24, 2026 - Iran accuses Trump of terrorism, as beleaguered Republicans urge him to end war
Simon's live report for "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
September 23, 2026 - Trump threatens war crimes on Iran, and renames Artificial Intelligence
Simon's live update on President Trump's day at the United Nations General Assembly, including his first face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister Andy Burnham. With James O'Brien on the UK's LBC.
September 23, 2026 - Burnham and Trump's first meeting sparks review of Chagos handover
Simon's live update for "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
September 22, 2026 - Trump's "ban on the free press" sparks fury and a legal backlash
Simon's live update for "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" on the UK's LBC.
September 4, 2026 - "American Week": Trump's cunning Post Office plan to rig the midterm elections
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.
This week: Trump's plan, in plain sight, to weaponise the US Postal Service in an effort to rig the outcome of November's mid-term elections.
September 4, 2026 - Trump may be going "wobbly" over the Falklands
Simon's live update for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC.
August 28. 2026 - "American Week": CIA Director makes mystery trip to Moscow, and remembering Dolly Parton
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday drivetime programme. Listen live every Friday at 5.50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
August 21, 2026 - "American Week": America's National Debt tops $40 trillion portending major problems ahead
August 12, 2026 - Trump confirms Air Force One deception in effort to protect him from Iranian death threats
Simon's live update for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC
August 7, 2026 - "American Week": Trump can no longer stipulate to reality
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm, or find it on catchup here afterwards.
This week:
-- Trump refuses to accept the reality of his own errors in the Reflecting Pool renovation scandal
-- Abdul El-Sayed becomes the new darling of the progressive left after winning the Michigan Demcoratic primary
August 1, 2026 - US Roundup: Democratic Socialists eat into Trump's working class support
Simon's live update for Vanessa Feltz's Saturday programme on the UK's LBC.
July 31, 2026 - "American Week": Trump craters in the polls, while the Democrats tear themselves apart
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on LBC.
This week:
--Trump's approval ratings crater to near-fatal levels
-- The Democrats' internecine battle intensifies
-- Dr Fauci pleads the Fifth
-- Fresh evidence emerges of the scale of Trump's grift
Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.
July 28, 2026 - Zelensky and Netanyahu in Washington for separate meetings with Trump
Simon's live update for LBC with Aasmah Mir presenting.
July 25, 2026 - Washington's most toe-curling event of the year
Simon's weekly roundup of events in the United States for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on LBC.
July 24, 2026 - "American Week": Trump welcomes Burnham to No. 10 with new tariffs
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday night drivetime programme on LBC. This week:
-- Trump hits 80 countries with new tariffs to replace the ones the Supreme Court outlawed;
-- Trump flirts with the commission of war crimes in Iran;
-- no one can find $13 billion of US oil revenues from Venezuela.
July 20, 2026 - Whither Britain as Burnham comes to power?
Simon's live update from London for Newzroom Afrika, South Africa's leading TV news channel.
July 17, 2026 - "American Week": Trump advances his plans to undermine midterm elections
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC's Friday night drivetime programme...this week presented by Simon.
July 13, 2026 - Remembering Lindsey Graham, 1955 - 2026
Simon's thoughts on the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. For LBC.
July 10, 2026 - "American Week": Trump tries to rig the World Cup
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for LBC, this week via Clive Bull's programme. Listen every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
July 9, 2026 - US strikes 90 targets across Iran after Trump calls regime "scum"
Simon's live update for Nick Ferrari at Breakfast on the UK's LBC.
July 4, 2026 - On America's 250th birthday, Trump warns communism is on the march
Simon's live update for Matt Frei's Saturday morning programme on the UK's LBC.
July 3, 2026 - "American Week": America in muted mood on its 250th birthday eve
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the 250-year-old United States for Tom Swarbrick's drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwards.
July 1, 2026 - US Roundup: Trump suffers big Supreme Court loss over birthright citizenship
Simon's live update with Lewis Goodall on LBC.
June 26, 2026 - "American Week": Trump takes a first crack at Burnham, while Democratic Socialists challenge their party's elite
Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the USA for LBC's Friday night drivetime programme, this week presented by Ben Kentish. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on-demand afterwards.
This week:
--Trump gives Burnham a kicking while also giving Starmer a kicking;
--NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte prostrates himself before Trump again;
--left-wing Democrats romp to victory in primary elections;
--America's 250th birthday celebrations get off to a lukewarm start.
