by Menna Rawlings | Apr 1, 2026 | Articles, Featured article, International Perspectives, Leadership and Reflections, Seventh Edition
Menna Rawlings reflects on three and a half decades as a diplomat – and on peaks women have yet to scale When I was eighteen, I completed the Tour du Mont Blanc with a group of school‑friends. It was one of my first trips outside the UK, and I was bowled over by the... 
by Peter McDonald | Oct 28, 2025 | Articles, Fifth Edition, Interviews
In this edited summary of an extensive discussion, Peter McDonald talks to the former Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office about the art of diplomacy, organisational resilience, the importance of collaboration across... 
by Lucy Heywood | Oct 1, 2025 | A Day in the Life of…, Articles, Fifth Edition, International Perspectives
Lucy Heywood describes a day in the life of Victoria Harrison – and her “Ambassadog”, Otto Victoria Harrison, Britain’s first blind Ambassador, has been in post in Slovenia for just over a year. Her historic appointment in August 2024 was the culmination... 
by Catriona Laing | Jun 11, 2025 | Articles, Fourth Edition, International Perspectives, Policy Insights
Catriona Laing describes how we can learn from the thinking and actions of Joseph Nye and Jeremy Heywood In an age when hard power seems to be in the ascendancy, soft power might feel like the diplomatic equivalent of handwritten letters – elegant but outdated. And...
