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Tom Fletcher’s Naked Diplomacy
  • calender icon May 26, 2016

  • user icon Joe Wallace, The World Weekly

The World Weekly talks to Tom Fletcher, the UK’s youngest ambassador for two centuries, about his new book, life inside Number 10 Downing Str ...

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Naked Diplomacy: Tom speaks to Randa Takieddine from Al Hayat
  • calender icon May 26, 2016

  • user icon Al Hayat

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'The people who know nothing'. What is the point of diplomats?
  • calender icon May 18, 2016

  • user icon Sir Simon Fraser, The Telegraph

What is the future for diplomats? That is the question raised (diplomatically, of course) by the report “Future FCO”, just publish ...

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The Foreign Office must find a new role to stop brain drain
  • calender icon May 13, 2016

  • user icon Bronwen Maddox, FT

Morale is low and key diplomats are leaving the UK department, writes Bronwen Maddox. Of all the reports which the Foreign and Commonwealt ...

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The Queen's Speech offers a slow government the chance to accelerate
  • calender icon May 16, 2016

  • user icon Emran Mian, NewStatesman

There are obvious reasons for the government's lethargy. There’s a referendum to win. It curtails the appetite for risk. In the ...

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