This is one reason I wanted to write about the natural world, climatic change - and consequences #EarthTransformed 👇

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The sun setting over our beautiful city 🌅

🎬 Instagram | Juncao_Oxford (March, 2024)

Having seen the danger of headlines trumping content, I am not endorsing the headline, but this was a great and illuminating read on some of the culture war context to our foreign policy debate this week.

Great to see a Hertford College, Oxford alum at helm of NATO.

Does colonial art have a place in a 21st century Foreign Office?

Here's both sides of the debate with Former No 10 policy adviser Tom Fletcher and art historian Charles Saumarez Smith

#KayBurley PO

My letter in The Times and The Sunday Times on the response to our report on supporting our diplomats to prepare for challenges ahead.

It is not about the name of the organization but what it does. Not about the choice of portraits but the (brilliant) people who are doing the job.

.Tom Fletcher, former No 10 foreign policy adviser, will be speaking to us on our breakfast show this morning.

🕐 8:30am
👉 #Breakfast
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📱 Watch live: trib.al/NJ70lwb

Brilliant 🧵 from Peter Ricketts on the future of UK foreign policy report 👇

The Spectator This is an argument about the future, not the past. We don’t want to downgrade the Foreign Office. On the contrary, we want to make it fit for the next 25 years. It is about what our diplomats do, not what we call the building they do it in or what’s on the walls.

The Spectator Our report, “The World in 2040”, argued for a transformation in how the UK does foreign policy. I’m proud of this country’s history and our pivotal role in shaping the modern world. This report is about the future and how we do so again.

A very helpful and wise🧵 👇

Three serious and thoughtful former diplomats have written a really worthwhile report about British foreign policy. Thanks to Tom Fletcher Mark Sedwill and Moazzam Malik for making the effort. I wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/arthursnel…

Macron’s comms on 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 have been consistently classy. ⬇️

'In a fractured world, a failure to work together will leave us all poorer and more insecure. Effective diplomacy, development and active international engagement is no luxury. It is essential for our nation to survive and thrive.' Tom Fletcher for Financial Times. ft.com/content/6a9601…