![]() ![]() When he left Beirut, and the Foreign Office, in 2015, Fletcher wrote a farewell blog to Lebanon. The message of Naked Diplomacy brings more of it. Anyone who has listened to politicians and diplomats dribbling platitudes on Radio 4’s Today, or BBC1’s Panorama, dodging direct questions and bluffing when a dodge fails, will know how rare that feeling of hope can be. That he is a fast-track civil servant was clear the moment I met him in Beirut three years ago and I came away feeling hopeful. Before Lebanon he served for four years as political secretary under Blair, Brown and Cameron. He was also one of the youngest ambassadors to be appointed to represent our Britannic Majesty for some 200 years, the first western diplomat to be retweeted by the Iranian president, to have a tweetup with a diva, etc. Fletcher was “our man” in Lebanon from 2011 until last summer, and if you know anything about the intrigues of that country, you will appreciate that he must be extremely skilled in the art of diplomacy. ![]()
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