Douglas Hurd

A going-away present

A great time ago when the world was young there was a pleasant and harmless custom by which a British ambassador when leaving his post could sit down and write a valedictory dispatch to the Foreign Secretary.

issue 13 November 2010

  • Parting Shots: The Undiplomatic Final Words of Our Departing Ambassadors

    edited by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson

    Penguin/Viking, pp. 400

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