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British ambassador to Lebanon signs off with viral blog post
  • calender icon August 5, 2015

  • user icon Colin Freeman, The Telegraph

"Guns, greed and God. Game of Thrones with RPGs. Human rights and hummus rights," writes Tom Fletcher, Her Majesty's Ambassador to Le ...

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Business for Education is Education for Business
  • calender icon October 1, 2015

  • user icon Tom Fletcher

In the last month, 200,000 Syrian refugee children have had the chance to return to school in Lebanon — some of them for the first time in mo ...

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Departing U.K. Ambassador in Beirut’s Funny, Touching Farewell to Lebanon
  • calender icon August 13, 2015

  • user icon Elias Groll, Foreign Policy

All diplomatic postings come to an end, and when they do, a weary emissary must pack up his suits and ties and say goodbye to the foreign country h ...

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So…Yalla, Bye
  • calender icon July 31, 2015

  • user icon Tom Fletcher

Dear Lebanon,   Sorry to write again. But I’m leaving your extraordinary country after four years. Unlike your politicians, I ca ...

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Freedom of information killed ambassadors’ valedictory dispatches. Could blogging bring them back?
  • calender icon August 22, 2015

  • user icon Matthew Parris, The Spectator

‘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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