In a recent IEC member-exclusive presentation, former UK Ambassador and Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, Tom Fletcher CMG, captivated members ...

Written by a Downing Street foreign policy adviser to no fewer than three prime ministers — Blair, Brown and Cameron — this story of a ...

Click here to listen to the interview in full.    Nik Gowing   Welcome to Talking about Thinking the Unthinkable, wh ...

The authors of this comprehensive survey of the UK’s soft power may be ruing their timing. Who needs talk of a nation’s persuasiveness, ...

Who am I? I’m a recovering ambassador, now running an Oxford college. After almost 25 years in diplomacy, including working in no 10 for ...