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Democracy and the media go together like…
Like Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett, and Richard Sambrook, I too was at Ditchley recently for a conference on the media and democracy. Present company excepted, it brought together a fascinating and lively group of people (not always the case at conferences). Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone…
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How to engineer an Anglo-Russian rapprochement
Arrange a meeting at a summit. Prior to the meeting, ensure government officials drop reassuring hints about the need to improve relations: Russia now poses its biggest threat to Britain since the Cold War, according to security sources. MI5 fears that Britain has been swamped with spies since the breakdown of relations over the tit-for-tat…
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Foreign correspondents – a dying breed unmourned by the audience
In an elegiac musing by Jon Friedman on the decline of the traditional foreign correspondent, Why foreign correspondents are a dying breed, there is a welcome reality check in the comments from one of those people formerly known as… read it below and remember who you write for. Foreign correspondents (and all journalists) are becoming…