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All for show?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/eu-uk-video-conferencing-all-for-show/", "published_at": "2020-06-12T10:39:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-09d2-724e-8c69-62ccf55e27fc", "title": "Where have all the health attachés gone?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/where-have-all-the-health-attaches-gone/", "published_at": "2020-05-15T08:10:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b5413bb83", "title": "Pandemic boost for video-conferencing?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/pandemic-boost-for-video-conferencing/", "published_at": "2020-03-13T17:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b549a9f85", "title": "Choosing the wrong ambassador", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/choosing-the-wrong-ambassador/", "published_at": "2020-01-17T12:48:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b5537551e", "title": "Will Russia Report ever see light of day?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/will-russia-report-ever-see-light-of-day/", "published_at": "2020-01-08T12:35:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b555b8022", "title": "Diplomatic Security under a Comparative Lens—Or Not?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/diplomatic-security-under-a-comparative-lens-or-not/", "published_at": "2020-01-04T11:47:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b55838eee", "title": "Brexit Counsellor at British Embassy Washington resigns", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/brexit-counsellor-at-british-embassy-washington-resigns/", "published_at": "2019-12-07T09:01:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b561ff3f9", "title": "Barder, Brian, Brian Barder’s Diplomatic Diary", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/barder-brian-brian-barders-diplomatic-diary/", "published_at": "2019-12-05T13:04:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b565c25a0", "title": "Johnson sits on ISC Report on Russian interference", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/johnson-sits-on-isc-report-on-russian-interference/", "published_at": "2019-11-02T18:55:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b56da1688", "title": "The Perm Rep and the unsigned letter", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/the-perm-rep-and-the-unsigned-letter/", "published_at": "2019-10-24T16:15:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b57396de4", "title": "EU-UK negotiations: normal rules?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/eu-uk-negotiations-normal-rules/", "published_at": "2019-10-04T07:23:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2024-727b-808b-fe5b57a2b85b", "title": "Foreign Office cleaners’ strike. Diplomacy begins at home", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/diplomacy-begins-at-home/", "published_at": "2019-09-27T08:43:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febf90ceb5b", "title": "Parliamentary democracy 11 – 0 Boris Johnson", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/parliamentary-democracy-11-0-boris-johnson/", "published_at": "2019-09-24T11:47:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febf92315eb", "title": "Non-papers in Brexit negotiations", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/non-prime-minister-submits-non-papers-to-eu/", "published_at": "2019-09-23T16:44:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febf9a3961f", "title": "Room for Diplomacy: The history of Britain’s diplomatic buildings overseas, 1800-2000", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/room-for-diplomacy-the-history-of-britains-diplomatic-buildings-overseas-1800-2000/", "published_at": "2019-09-09T19:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febfa7bb475", "title": "If at first you don’t succeed …", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/if-at-first-you-dont-succees/", "published_at": "2019-09-04T07:17:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febfb56429f", "title": "EU negotiations with Johnson a waste of time", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/eu-negotiations-with-johnson-a-waste-of-time/", "published_at": "2019-07-30T17:47:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febfbb2187b", "title": "Darroch resignation. Who appoints a new ambassador?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/who-appoints-the-ambassador/", "published_at": "2019-07-12T13:17:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febfbfb44af", "title": "Trump and Darroch", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/the-darroch-affair/", "published_at": "2019-07-09T15:26:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febfc749a4c", "title": "Diplomatic Notebooks 1, 1958-1960: The view from Ankara", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/diplomatic-notebooks-1-1958-1960-the-view-from-ankara/", "published_at": "2019-04-11T09:59:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febfd3070c5", "title": "Petition on Russia and BREXIT", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/petition-on-russia-and-brexit/", "published_at": "2019-03-01T13:05:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-2025-739f-97fb-0febfe03c8af", "title": "British Diplomats on Brexit", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/british-diplomats-on-brexit/", "published_at": "2019-02-14T10:20:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713183ba660e", "title": "Q. Which London embassy needs 13 cultural attachés?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/q-which-london-embassy-needs-13-cultural-attaches/", "published_at": "2018-12-10T11:51:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-7131848bb194", "title": "The Emirates, SIS – and Brexit", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/the-emirates-sis-and-brexit/", "published_at": "2018-12-02T09:35:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713184cd741f", "title": "The inevitability of a bad Brexit deal for Britain", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/the-inevitability-of-a-bad-brexit-deal-for-britain/", "published_at": "2018-11-24T11:21:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-7131853f3122", "title": "The Khashoggi affair and consular law", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/the-khashoggi-affair-why-the-turkish-authorities-would-have-been-legally-as-well-as-morally-entitled-to-take-quicker-and-more-decisive-action/", "published_at": "2018-10-18T11:10:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713185aa0c9a", "title": "Diplomacy, Satire and the Victorians", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/diplomacy-satire-and-the-victorians/", "published_at": "2018-08-11T16:19:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-7131863d9677", "title": "Donald Duck could have got Kim to Singapore", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/trumps-b-movie-in-singapore/", "published_at": "2018-06-13T07:03:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713186ef19fc", "title": "Intelligence officers in the present crisis between Russia and the West", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/intelligence-officers-in-the-present-crisis-between-russia-and-the-west/", "published_at": "2018-04-05T08:05:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713186f61635", "title": "Enter the Stupid Party, Exit Diplomacy", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/enter-the-stupid-party-exit-diplomacy/", "published_at": "2017-11-27T17:45:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-7131877b0a95", "title": "Death of author of WHAT DIPLOMATS DO", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/death-of-author-of-what-diplomats-do/", "published_at": "2017-11-12T12:43:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-7131879b52ec", "title": "Boris (‘the horse’) Johnson must go – Update", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/boris-the-horse-johnson-must-go/", "published_at": "2017-08-30T11:53:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-71318808d735", "title": "The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/the-summer-capitals-of-europe-1814-1919/", "published_at": "2017-08-25T09:26:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713188671dc4", "title": "Curing the Sick Man: Sir Henry Bulwer and the Ottoman Empire, 1858-1865", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/curing-the-sick-man-sir-henry-bulwer-and-the-ottoman-empire-1858-1865/", "published_at": "2017-07-19T10:40:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-71318869682c", "title": "Trump and Putin: that ‘secret meeting’ at the G20 dinner", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/trump-and-putin-that-secret-meeting-at-the-g20-dinner/", "published_at": "2017-07-19T10:20:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713188fc5cb6", "title": "Tillerson, Russia and the return of ‘megaphone diplomacy’", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/tillerson-russia-and-the-return-of-megaphone-diplomacy/", "published_at": "2017-04-10T11:30:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713189590158", "title": "The regrettable resilience of ‘resilience’", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/the-regrettable-resilience-of-resilience/", "published_at": "2017-03-27T08:10:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-713189ee6477", "title": "A public diplomacy own goal for Trump’s State Department", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/a-public-diplomacy-own-goal-for-trumps-state-department/", "published_at": "2017-03-17T20:42:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-71318a9a7b42", "title": "In defence of the House of Lords", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/in-defence-of-the-house-of-lords/", "published_at": "2017-03-07T21:02:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-71318b63edec", "title": "‘Guarded engagement’ with Russia means what?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/guarded-engagement-with-russia-means-what/", "published_at": "2017-03-05T17:55:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-71318c36b9ea", "title": "Geneva Prenegotiations on Syria", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/geneva-prenegotiations-on-syria-with-washington-diplomatically-headless-let-russia-take-over/", "published_at": "2017-03-05T11:36:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-307f-716d-a614-71318c57dc81", "title": "Political appointees: more trouble for Trump with the CIA?", "url": "https://grberridge.diplomacy.edu/political-appointees-more-trouble-for-trump-with-the-cia/", "published_at": "2017-02-10T12:32:51+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Contact Form for this Websiteoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Count Binface: Today Clacton, tomorrow the US State Department?original ↗
12 Jul 2026
Pity the Foreign Ministryoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2026
Trump thinking of leaving NATO? Good riddance.original ↗
1 Apr 2026
The importance of Jonathan Powell to US-Iran diplomacyoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2026
Ambassadors, Journalists and Spiesoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2026
The Arrogance of Ignoranceoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ absurdityoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2026

2025

Diplomatic Notebooks III (1964–1966) and Diplomatic Notebooks V (1969–1972)original ↗
14 Dec 2025
Why I’ve put the Arsenal’s logo on the right-hand sidebaroriginal ↗
10 Dec 2025
It’s not the Chinese but the US Embassy in London the UK should be worried aboutoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2025
US bullying at IMO meetingoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2025
History of Diplomacy and Technology: From smoke signals to artificial intelligenceoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2025
Rafael Behr on the UK and Donald Trumporiginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
Good advice for Trump from Simon Tisdalloriginal ↗
25 May 2025
Foreign students shouldn’t take risks with Trump’s Americaoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2025
Up the Iron!original ↗
14 Apr 2025
New American Ambassador to South Africa?original ↗
30 Mar 2025
Oval Office horror show, or How not to do diplomacyoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2025
US and Russia restoring diplomatic ties?original ↗
27 Feb 2025
Will the Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance underpin NATO?original ↗
23 Feb 2025
Prenegotiations on peace in Ukraine?original ↗
19 Feb 2025
Israel-Palestine: A fantasy formula for ‘the day after’?original ↗
26 Jan 2025
UK-China deal on new embassiesoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2025

2024

Israel’s ‘accidental’ attacks on UNIFILoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2024
UN Pact for the Future versus the Usual Suspectsoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2024
Elon Musk: Public Enemy No. 1original ↗
30 Aug 2024
Lest we forget: The UN Charteroriginal ↗
10 Jul 2024
A collective noun for diplomatsoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2024
The embassy that planned 13 toilets undergroundoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2024
The diplomatic consequences of Mrs Sacoolasoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2024
New London embassy for China?original ↗
25 Jan 2024

2023

‘COP28’? Names matteroriginal ↗
16 Dec 2023
The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britainoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2023
Gaza: Turkish mediation?original ↗
23 Nov 2023
Gaza: humanitarian pause or ceasefire?original ↗
22 Nov 2023
China’s embassy in Ukraineoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2023
‘Agri-food-and drink attachés’ for endangered seatsoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2023
Email crashoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2023
Fleetwood Mac, ‘Perfect’ surpriseoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2023
New START Treaty on embassy life supportoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2023

2022

Corrupt honorary consuls exposedoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2022
How your country voted in UN debates on Ukraineoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2022
Boris Johnson: Tottering Tsar of Londongradoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2022

2021

America’s headless embassiesoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2021
Secrecy in negotiations, UK-styleoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2021
‘Buy, buy (not bye-bye) Mr Ambassador!’original ↗
26 Jun 2021
Embassies and transnational repressionoriginal ↗
25 May 2021
Boris Johnson: the charge sheetoriginal ↗
1 May 2021
‘Brexit: a tragic national error’original ↗
1 Jan 2021

2020

Boris Johnson takes UK downoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2020
Obituary: Ambassador Laurence Popeoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2020
Johnson’s Britain and the price of breaking international laworiginal ↗
12 Sept 2020
Hostile takeover: Foreign Office swallows Development ministryoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2020
American diplomacy in crisisoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2020
Russia Report finally disgorgedoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2020
An honorary consul in the pandemicoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2020
The hole in the fenceoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2020
EU-UK video-conferencing. All for show?original ↗
12 Jun 2020
Where have all the health attachés gone?original ↗
15 May 2020
Pandemic boost for video-conferencing?original ↗
13 Mar 2020
Choosing the wrong ambassadororiginal ↗
17 Jan 2020
Will Russia Report ever see light of day?original ↗
8 Jan 2020
Diplomatic Security under a Comparative Lens—Or Not?original ↗
4 Jan 2020

2019

Brexit Counsellor at British Embassy Washington resignsoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2019
Barder, Brian, Brian Barder’s Diplomatic Diaryoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2019
Johnson sits on ISC Report on Russian interferenceoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2019
The Perm Rep and the unsigned letteroriginal ↗
24 Oct 2019
EU-UK negotiations: normal rules?original ↗
4 Oct 2019
Foreign Office cleaners’ strike. Diplomacy begins at homeoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2019
Parliamentary democracy 11 – 0 Boris Johnsonoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2019
Non-papers in Brexit negotiationsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2019
Room for Diplomacy: The history of Britain’s diplomatic buildings overseas, 1800-2000original ↗
9 Sept 2019
If at first you don’t succeed …original ↗
4 Sept 2019
EU negotiations with Johnson a waste of timeoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2019
Darroch resignation. Who appoints a new ambassador?original ↗
12 Jul 2019
Trump and Darrochoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2019
Diplomatic Notebooks 1, 1958-1960: The view from Ankaraoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2019
Petition on Russia and BREXIToriginal ↗
1 Mar 2019
British Diplomats on Brexitoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2019

2018

Q. Which London embassy needs 13 cultural attachés?original ↗
10 Dec 2018
The Emirates, SIS – and Brexitoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2018
The inevitability of a bad Brexit deal for Britainoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2018
The Khashoggi affair and consular laworiginal ↗
18 Oct 2018
Diplomacy, Satire and the Victoriansoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2018
Donald Duck could have got Kim to Singaporeoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2018
Intelligence officers in the present crisis between Russia and the Westoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2018

2017

Enter the Stupid Party, Exit Diplomacyoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2017
Death of author of WHAT DIPLOMATS DOoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2017
Boris (‘the horse’) Johnson must go – Updateoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2017
The Summer Capitals of Europe, 1814-1919original ↗
25 Aug 2017
Curing the Sick Man: Sir Henry Bulwer and the Ottoman Empire, 1858-1865original ↗
19 Jul 2017
Trump and Putin: that ‘secret meeting’ at the G20 dinneroriginal ↗
19 Jul 2017
Tillerson, Russia and the return of ‘megaphone diplomacy’original ↗
10 Apr 2017
The regrettable resilience of ‘resilience’original ↗
27 Mar 2017
A public diplomacy own goal for Trump’s State Departmentoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2017
In defence of the House of Lordsoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2017
‘Guarded engagement’ with Russia means what?original ↗
5 Mar 2017
Geneva Prenegotiations on Syriaoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2017
Political appointees: more trouble for Trump with the CIA?original ↗
10 Feb 2017
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