‘All I ever tried to do was hold a mirror up and show you how beautiful you really are. Shine on, you crazy diamond.’   I ...

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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 ...

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 ...