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 ...

After a nuclear crisis in Fukushima, 200 Japanese pensioners volunteered to face the dangers of radiation instead of the young. The cancer could ta ...

Former defence, national security and foreign policy experts lay out five outcomes that the international community should be working towards to av ...

Where do you see the most exciting research and debates happening in your field?    I think, at the moment, they are centred arou ...

William Collins has scooped a "practical manifesto to equip humanity for a changing global landscape" from former diplomat Tom Fletcher. ...

As British ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher was one of the first ambassadors to “go digital.” Ten years on, he reflects on what the ...