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The best books on navigating an unstable world - Tom's picks
  • calender icon April 18, 2022

  • user icon 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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A safer, fairer world can happen if we teach our children how to build it
  • calender icon March 31, 2022

  • user icon 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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Book Review: 10 Survival Skills for a World in Flux
  • calender icon February 8, 2022

  • user icon 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 ...

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How to become a good ancestor
  • calender icon January 28, 2022

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

After a nuclear crisis in Fukushima, 200 Japanese pensioners volunteered to face the dangers of radiation instead of the young. The cancer could ta ...

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UK government must act now to save millions of lives in Afghanistan
  • calender icon January 23, 2022

  • user icon The Guardian

Former defence, national security and foreign policy experts lay out five outcomes that the international community should be working towards to av ...

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