On the Fringes with Elizabeth Stewart
Monkey Business? This week we have been welcoming in the Chinese Year of the Monkey and on Sunday London will host the biggest celebrations outside…
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Diplomats mourn Liberian Ambassador
Envoys have been paying tributes to the Liberian Ambassador, Rudolf von Ballmoos, who died of a heart attack last week, media reports say. The Marshal…
The Marshall
The Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps Alistair Harrison reflects on a busy end to 2015 and the very sad passing of a respected member of…
On the Fringes with Elizabeth Stewart
No kidding… At the start of 2015 we saw in the Year of the Goat and the Chinese sages told us this would mean a…
Christmas with SINners..
London Diplomatic Science Club chair Aniko Dobi Rozsa invited LDSC members for a festive feast at the Hungarian Embassy with FCO Chief Scientific Adviser Professor…
WDS Festive Holiday Tea
Women diplomats met for a Festive Tea at the Corinthia Hotel where they brainstormed ideas for 2016 and lucky Stanislava Rumyantseva of the Russian Embassy…
Bombs don’t kill ideology says envoy
On the occasion to mark the winning of the Nobel Prize for Peace by the ‘National Dialogue Quartet’ of four civil society groups in Tunisia,…
Huge ‘Books for Prisons’ response
It’s the season for giving and this Christmas foreign national offenders at Maidstone Prison will receive the gift of a foreign language library donated by…
CCL Committee 2016 elected
At the Consular Corps AGM Christiaan Sys, Belgian Vice Consul, was elected for a second term as President. Re-elected on to the executive committee was…
Support for visitor victims in London
The holiday period is a busy time for consuls who may be called on to aid their citizens visiting London, so they welcomed the opportunity…