Articles
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August 25, 2015
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Matthew Teller, BBC News
The outgoing British ambassador to Lebanon hates the image of diplomats as stuck-up champagne-drinking mandarins, and goes out of his way to prove ...
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August 13, 2015
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Christopher Meyer, The Telegraph
That sound you hear is the massed ranks of long-departed British ambassadors turning in their graves. Some of us, alive but retired, have had to re ...
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May 20, 2022
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Thinking the Unthinkable
Click here to listen to the interview in full. Nik Gowing Welcome to Talking about Thinking the Unthinkable, wh ...
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May 9, 2022
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Book Review by Tom Fletcher - International Affairs, Chatham House, OUP
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, ...
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April 18, 2022
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Shepherd - discover the best books
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 ...
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March 31, 2022
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Tom Fletcher, The New European
As Vladimir Putin doubles down on violence in Ukraine, it is no surprise that many despair at the state of global leadership, our collective inabil ...
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February 8, 2022
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Gavin Esler, The National
Tom Fletcher maintains realistic optimism in 'Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux' When I started working in the BBC&rsq ...