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It used to be said that you are what you eat. For today's leaders and diplomats, you are what you tw
  • calender icon January 29, 2018

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

In some ways, Twitter is simply a return to the lively political debate of the Roman forum. Seven years ago, I produced a set of guidelines for ...

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Is Olly Robbins the 'real' Brexit secretary?
  • calender icon January 23, 2018

  • user icon Nicholas Watt, Newsnight Political Editor, BBC News

What do we know about one of the best-known unknown people in Downing Street?   As a Whitehall mandarin who has spent years shunning t ...

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Four things we have learnt about the world in the past 12 months
  • calender icon December 28, 2017

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

Diplomats hate making predictions. This is partly because we hate to be wrong. It is partly because we don’t know as much as we pretend to. I ...

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The four factors that make a city a magnet for the world
  • calender icon November 20, 2017

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

I have just been to Paris and London, two of the most magnetic cities in the world. Hemingway said that Paris is everyone’s second city and i ...

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Still searching for a present? CPI’s 2017 gift guide can help…
  • calender icon December 9, 2017

  • user icon Centre for Public Impact

Find Tom's recommendations below: I’m confident that the book of 2018 will be New Power: How It’s Changing The 21st Century &nd ...

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