Episode 14: Boycie and Baldrick Get a Shot in the Arm
In this strangest of years, international cooperation has taken on a different aspect. Border closures, quarantine and testing regimes have never before been part of my daily diplomatic vocabulary. ...
8 Feb 20216min
Episode 13: Counting COVID
This is the first blogcast I have recorded for several weeks. This is mainly because I had to travel to the UK for family reasons - a journey that was a story in itself. But there is another reason ...
22 Jan 202111min
Episode 12: Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Can Christmas be Christmas without presents? How do you celebrate Christmas this year?
18 Des 20206min
Episode 11: Bad Air Days and Silver Linings
The global skies have been pretty dark metaphorically over past months. They have been pretty gloomy too here literally for much of the time. I’m lucky enough to look out of my window in Belgrade at...
27 Nov 20207min
Episode 10: Time, Like an Ever Rolling Stream
This has been a solemn week in what has been a desperately sad month in a desperately sad year. On 11 November the UK like many other countries commemorates Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day, which o...
12 Nov 20206min
Episode 9: Tea with Everything: A Diplomatic Week
Diplomacy is never a 9-5 job and, however much we like to plan, it is rarely possible to predict exactly how your time will be spent in any given week. The coronavirus pandemic has added to the unpr...
6 Nov 202010min
Episode 8: A House in Dedinje
Diplomats move house more than most people. We move between countries every two, three or four years. We move backwards and forwards to and from our own countries. Even within our home countries jobs...
30 Okt 20208min
Episode 7: Sir Mick Jagger and the Art of Negotiation
This week stories about negotiations have been prominent in the media both in the UK and in Serbia. The history of diplomacy might also be called the history of negotiation. Negotiating is a way ...
23 Okt 202010min
