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Flat White

Ambitions closer to home?

8 January 2018

6:53 PM

8 January 2018

6:53 PM

There used to be rules about diplomatic postings, rules ancient, arcane and complicated.

Fluency in the language of the host country, experience in handling the kind of diplomatic rows that may break out between countries, contacts within significant sections, all these factors might have once been used to weigh up suitability for posting.

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