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 ...

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 ...

Students offered innovative ideas, such as using blockchain as an anti-corruption tool, harnessing artificial intelligence and virtual reality to e ...

Helen Clark, head of the UN Development Programme, tells us what needs to be done to create a more peaceful world in 2020.   Former Ne ...

If there is one thing that sensible diplomats have learned over the centuries, it is not to make predictions.   But here is one anyway ...

Britain is at a crossroads in our relationship with the rest of the world and, whatever happens next on Brexit, we will need all the international ...

Every autumn, diplomacy geeks look forward to the annual Soft Power 30 report, which goes one step further than the Organisation for Economic Co-op ...