Articles
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August 25, 2015
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Matthew Teller, BBC News
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 ...
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August 13, 2015
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Christopher Meyer, The Telegraph
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 ...
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May 27, 2016
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India Bourke, NewStatesman
Emojis could be the promised land of diplomatic history: they have the potential to speak across borders to a new, global citizenry. ...
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May 26, 2016
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Joe Wallace, The World Weekly
The World Weekly talks to Tom Fletcher, the UK’s youngest ambassador for two centuries, about his new book, life inside Number 10 Downing Str ...
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May 26, 2016
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Al Hayat
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May 18, 2016
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Sir Simon Fraser, The Telegraph
What is the future for diplomats? That is the question raised (diplomatically, of course) by the report “Future FCO”, just publish ...
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May 13, 2016
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Bronwen Maddox, FT
Morale is low and key diplomats are leaving the UK department, writes Bronwen Maddox. Of all the reports which the Foreign and Commonwealt ...