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 ...

Clandestine British squad worked at speed to coordinate huge effort to build 12 towers along Syrian border to prevent town from falling to Isil for ...

Goliath pulls sly punch on rather unwilling David October 16 2002   A diplomat is horrified when a fight he has been joking about ...

Pearls of wisdom — and some tempting invitations — have been written for a British envoy’s infant son by a host of world figures. ...

A mock diplomatic spat went viral after a popular Lebanese satirist lampooned an open letter by the British Ambassador to Lebanon. British ...

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