Multiple crises test FCO
Nearly a fifth of all Foreign Office staff had to be temporarily redeployed as Britain’s stretched diplomatic service responded to simultaneous crises in the Middle…
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Reverse World Service cuts – MPs
Funding for the BBC World Service should be protected and budget cuts reversed to preserve its global reputation, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee has urged….
Colonial era files could trigger compensation claims
Secret files documenting tactics to crush the anti-colonial Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya have been made public, coinciding with a test case in the High…
Libyan envoys expelled as ex-persona non grata defects
Five loyalists of the Gaddafi regime have been expelled from the Libyan Embassy in London because they posed a national security threat, according to Foreign…
Census will help consuls
The 2011 UK Census will provide invaluable information to policy planners and consuls alike, Ian White, head of census legislation, told the Consular Corps at…
Gap Year travel kit
The Foreign Office has launched a ‘Know Before You Go’ toolkit for teachers to encourage school leavers planning a gap year to prepare carefully before…
Afghanistan’s cultural heroes
Culture has been an abiding passion for Afghanistan’s Ambassador to London Homayoun Tandar, a Sorbonne-educated archaeologist, who led the outcry against the Taliban’s destruction of…
Culture Matters
Culture has the power to unify or divide, but however you look at it, culture matters. The dualistic nature of culture was on display at…
The Mighty Quinn
Those curious about the huge, brass works of art that have materialised around London gathered at the Italian Cultural Institute to meet the sculptor, Lorenzo…
Diplomacy in 3D
“This is better than a pyjama party!” smiled Slovene Ambassador Iztok Jarc as he greeted his colleagues, all donning 3D glasses to view Mimicry, a…