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.

Fascinating essay from Sathnam Sanghera using this week’s future of UK foreign policy report from UCL Policy Lab and Hertford College, Oxford as a spur to reflect on the legacies of empire: newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Excited to present the results of the *National Survey of Public Servants* in #Chile with Javier Fuenzalida - to-date, the largest survey of public servants in Chile and the largest public servant survey in Latin America measuring diversity and inclusion management. Register below. ⬇️

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

Ahead of the publication of their new book England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight, we speak to Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears about how ordinariness can overcome grandiosity and create a new shared hope.
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Skip your morning coffee and listen to this instead!

Mona Bani and Amanda Tattersall will leave you fired up about injustice and certain we can do something about it.

We’re delighted to be working with UCL Policy Lab to tell these stories of people power and ordinary hope.

We’re so proud of Team UCL for making it to the finals of #UniversityChallenge .

It wasn’t to be in the end, but to make it this far is such an incredible feat.

3 cheers for James Hall, Ali Izzatdust, Tayana Sawh and Jacob Finlay - we can’t wait to see what you do next 👏💜

Lots of interesting ideas in this oped from Tom Fletcher and the accompanying report from UCL Policy Lab and others. I was particularly struck during my years working in and around government by the way in which foreign and domestic policy rarely worked in unison… 1/2

Caring about an institution and its role means knowing when it's time for reform.

Some of the coverage of today's UCL Policy Lab & Hertford College, Oxford publication on the future of UK foreign affairs co-convened by Moazzam Malik, Tom Fletcher, Mark Sedwill. ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/new…

🧵Although much of the focus of this pamphlet ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/new… has inevitably been on the proposed replacement of the Foreign Office, there is a radical thought buried within the text worthy of examination, namely that the UK needs to rethink the way it sees itself. 1/7

What is the future of UK foreign policy? The report from Moazzam Malik Mark Sedwill Tom Fletcher, published by UCL Policy Lab and Hertford College, Oxford has caught the imagination brilliantly today and is being debated across all party lines. You can read it here: ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/sit…

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Readers are loving the endlessly interesting England, by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears!

Don't miss this essential title, out on 25th April 👀

It's time to reform UK foreign affairs to safeguard future UK prosperity and security.

Policy Lab Honorary Professor Moazzam Malik speaking on BBC Radio 4 Today about our new report with Hertford College, Oxford The World in 2040: Renewing the UK’s Approach to International Affairs.

My Financial Times piece on getting our diplomats the sense of purpose, resources, machinery, skills they need to lead UK’s international engagement in a world in flux.

With Moazzam Malik, and drawing on Hertford College, Oxford UCL Policy Lab discussions with experts.

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The UK's approach to international affairs needs urgent renewal

Mark Sedwill Tom Fletcher & I gathered ex ministers, National Security Advisers, HM Ambassadors to debate an ambitious vision for our future in an unstable world UCL Policy Lab Hertford College, Oxford ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/new…

The UK needs a new approach to international affairs.
From our spending commitments to our historical legacy, we must adjust for a world in flux.

Tom Fletcher in @ft on the Policy Lab and Hertford College, Oxford new report on the future of UK foreign affairs.
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Excellent report on the future of the UK’s foreign policy from Moazzam Malik and colleagues, published today by UCL Policy Lab and covered this morning by Patrick Wintour at The Guardian.