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Blowing out the candles on our 35th birthday
  • calender icon July 15, 2019

  • user icon Chevening News

We celebrated being a little bit older and wiser at our annual Farewell event for departing Chevening Scholars at Alexandra Palace last week. 1,800 ...

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What I Learned From Becoming A ‘Trump Supporter’
  • calender icon November 6, 2016

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, Eurasia Review

I have a confession: I’m on Donald Trump’s mailing list.   It started innocently when I took his questionnaire on media bi ...

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When the pandemic recedes, the world may see the rise of new soft powers
  • calender icon May 5, 2020

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

How magnetic are our countries? Soft power has not been – understandably – at the top of our minds during the pandemic. But it has not ...

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A letter from the future about how we handled the coronavirus pandemic
  • calender icon March 27, 2020

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, Independent

At the time there was an American president who called it a Chinese virus, because it started there. But unlike the virus, that didn’t catch ...

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Viral diplomacy: in the age of coronavirus, how statecraft and summitry will have to adapt
  • calender icon March 12, 2020

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

As corona goes viral, we are learning that predictions can be both contagious and futile. But here – recklessly – are a few for the mom ...

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