Tim worked as BBC Middle East Affairs Correspondent in Beirut and later Nicosia between 1976 and 1980, and 1987 and 1992. Thereafter he wrote and broadcast as a freelancer for the BBC and other organisations and publications on Middle East matters, especially Palestine, Israel and Lebanon.

Tim is also the author of Spirit of the Phoenix: Beirut and the Story of Lebanon, published by I.B.Tauris.   He is a leading critic of the British media and particularly broadcasting coverage of the Israel/Palestine question over the past 40 years. He is very active with the British Palestine Project (previously the Balfour Project), currently serving on the Executive Committee and as Chair in 2019/20. 

Tim was a member of the Labour Party for around 50 years, but left in 2022 on account of "Starmerism".

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