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 ...

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 ...

Tom Fletcher has been a diplomat (he was the youngest senior British ambassador for 200 years), a foreign policy adviser (to three UK Prime Ministe ...

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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 ...

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

Veterans of the global response to the 2008 financial crisis have called for an emergency summit of G20 countries to discuss the threat to the worl ...