Simon McDonald @SimonMcDonaldUK
Master, @christs_college. Crossbench Peer @UKHouseofLords. Former Permanent Under-Secretary, FCO & Head of HM Diplomatic Service. Joined July 2015-
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In 🇺🇸 I saw sea lions swimming off La Jolla Cove, pelicans flying over Butterfly Beach, Chicago skyline from 61st floor, Drumthwacket from inside, & National Monuments of D.C. under a cloudless sky, but nothing beats coming home to wisteria blooming in 1st Court @christs_college
12 days, 9 cities, 6 states, 2 pieces of hand luggage, 1 country 🇺🇸; time to fly back to @christs_college
Hepsibah Swan commissioned Charles Bullfinch (architect of US Capitol) to build houses for her 3 daughters at start of 19th century. Although on a hill, their front doors are on same level (daughters are equal in a wise mother’s eyes). Middle house now residence of HMCG Boston 🇺🇸
Thoroughly enjoyable evening last night talking history, politics and international affairs with @SimonMcDonaldUK, former head of the 🇬🇧 Diplomatic Service and now Master of @christs_college, Cambridge. Great to welcome him back to #Boston in his new role.
Always struck by that stage in the political cycle when a govt that has actively chosen not to reform the composition & powers of the House of Lords gets enraged when the members of the Lords the gov’t has chosen to leave in place exercise the powers the gov’t has left unchanged
Good to see @RobertBuckland standing up for what he believes. Next round of ping pong starts soon in @UKHouseofLords, with likely votes on monitoring and Afghans, though double insistence does not seem to be in our repertoire of shots this time around.
Washington Square Arch in NYC commemorates centenary of George Washington’s inauguration as president in 1789. Built in 19th century, vandalised in 20th, restored in 21st, looking good in 2024. Disappointingly, not a film crew in sight…
After President Clinton dedicated FDR’s Memorial in 1997, disability campaigners noted more attention paid to his dog (Fala) than to his disability (wheelchair-bound after polio). Clinton responded: a new statue was added in 2001 as Prologue to FDR’s story…
Coolest sight of the day: seeing young people imitate Martin Luther King’s stance posing for photos at his Memorial in Washington DC…
My piece in the Guardian about denouement of Rwanda Bill this week: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Albert Einstein was visiting 🇺🇸 when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933; he decided to stay. In 1935 he bought a house on Mercer Street in Princeton NJ where he lived until his death 20 years later. Subsequently home to 2 other Nobel laureates. Still a private house.
In 2006 Sir Anish Kapoor gave Chicago its most iconic modern monument, dubbed The Bean by Chicagoans before he could name it officially Cloud Gate. The Wisdom of Crowds…
Victoria Harrison has been appointed HM Ambassador to Slovenia, taking over from Tiffany Sadler. Victoria takes up her appointment in August 2024. Victoria is the first blind person to be appointed a British Ambassador and will be accompanied by her #GuideDog Otto.@VictoriaH_FCDO
James Cleverly🇬�.. @JamesCleverly
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Foreign, Commonwealth.. @FCDOGovUK
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Palmerston @DiploMog
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Menna Rawlings @MennaRawlings
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Philip Barton @PhilipRBarton
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Lord (Tariq)Ahmad of .. @tariqahmadbt
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Simon Manley @SimonManleyFCDO
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Peter Ricketts @LordRickettsP
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David Clay @dave_clay
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Jonathan Jones @SirJJKC
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Greg Hands @GregHands
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Dame Karen Pierce @KarenPierceUK
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Merry Verity @merry_verityy
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Gwenda Jeffreys-Jones @GwendaJJ
108 Followers 880 Following Personal account @dfatirl @eu_eeas #EU #multilateralism
Vicki B @VBuckFCDO
126 Followers 1K Following Cumbrian. Georgian food evangelist, cookbook addict. Tweets = my (personal) views, RTs = their views.
Reece Connelly @connelly_reece
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James Llewelyn @JamesLlewelyn5
176 Followers 2K Following Journalist in Domestic Radio Newsroom @bbcnews | Previously @hnp_news, is @PA_Training
James Cleverly🇬�.. @JamesCleverly
240K Followers 8K Following Home Secretary of the United Kingdom. MP for Braintree.
Foreign, Commonwealth.. @FCDOGovUK
1.1M Followers 3K Following We lead the UK’s work internationally, promoting the UK overseas, defending our security, projecting our values, reducing poverty and tackling global challenges
Palmerston @DiploMog
105K Followers 16 Following Official account of the @foreignoffice Chief Mouser and former resident of @Battersea_. Supporting them through https://t.co/aRd9jlOFAI
Menna Rawlings @MennaRawlings
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Philip Barton @PhilipRBarton
30K Followers 207 Following Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office @FCDOGovUK
Lord (Tariq)Ahmad of .. @tariqahmadbt
61K Followers 3K Following 🇬🇧 Minister of State Foreign Commonwealth & Development Affairs (South Asia, MEastNAfrica, UN, Human Rights) PM's Special Envoy for Preventing Sexual Violence
Simon Manley @SimonManleyFCDO
20K Followers 591 Following Diplomat. Husband. Dad. Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the UK to the WTO and UN in Geneva 🇬🇧🇺🇳 Proud to lead @UKMissionGeneva
Peter Ricketts @LordRickettsP
29K Followers 462 Following Former diplomat, Chair @LordsEUCom, Vice-Chair @RUSI_org, Hon Pres Normandy Memorial Trust. Author of ‘Hard Choices’. Views strictly my own!
David Clay @dave_clay
9K Followers 2K Following UK diplomat. Postings in Egypt, Libya and New York (UN). Now back in London. Mostly tweeting about the history of diplomacy and negotiation
Jonathan Jones @SirJJKC
30K Followers 489 Following Senior Consultant, Linklaters. Visiting Prof, Durham Law School. Senior Fellow, Institute for Government. Lay Canon, Ely Cathedral. Mainly law. And cocktails
Paul Brummell @PaulBrummell
17K Followers 7K Following HM Ambassador to #Latvia. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office #DigitalDiplomacy #foreignpolicy
Ed Llewellyn @EdLlewellynFCDO
24K Followers 3K Following HM Ambassador to Italy and San Marino. Ex Amb to France 2016-21, Chief of Staff, 10 Downing St 2010-16, Bosnia, Hong Kong. Hon Capt RNR, affiliated HMS Albion
Christina Scott @CScottFCDO
9K Followers 1K Following 🇬🇧 Deputy High Commissioner @UKinIndia 🇮🇳. Formerly in 🇦🇮, 🇨🇳, 🇪🇺, No10, CO, HMT. Less work, more photos on insta at Christinamescott
Dame Karen Pierce @KarenPierceUK
38K Followers 414 Following British Ambassador to the United States 🇬🇧🇺🇸 See also: @UKinUSA
Paul Johnston @PJohnstonFCDO
10K Followers 3K Following UK Ambassador to Ireland: formerly in London, Paris, Stockholm, and UK missions to the UN, NATO and the EU
Caroline Wilson 吴�.. @CWilson_FCDO
27K Followers 1K Following UK Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China @FCDOGovUK | @ukinchina My Weibo: @英国使馆吴若兰 | Embassy Weibo: @英国驻华使馆 | Embassy WeChat: @英国驻华使馆
Corin Robertson @CorinRobertson
22K Followers 2K Following Chief Operating Officer/DG Corporate and Finance @fcdogovuk Former British Ambassador to Mexico. Mum. She/her. #diversity #Sheffield @FundLifeboat
Jill Gallard @jillgallard
8K Followers 403 Following British Ambassador to Germany. Proud Mum. Reader. Runner. Love learning languages 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇨🇿🇵🇹🇩🇪. Diversity/inclusion. Photos on Instagram @jillgallard.
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind
211K Followers 2K Following I didn't write the headline, though. Writing @thetimes, talking @timesradio every Saturday, 10am -1pm
David Sterling @DavidSterling7
3K Followers 1K Following Chair @NIElectricity @NIScreen & @chiefexecforum Board member @UlsterWildlife @wibni @CCBSCrossBorder and Irish Times Trust. Associate @EY Former Head NICS
Richard Benyon @RichardHRBenyon
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Helene von Bismarck @HeleneBismarck
44K Followers 2K Following Historian & Writer, Anglophile&European. FRHistS. Sr. Associate Fellow @Rusi_org All views my own. RTs not endorsements.
James O'Brien @mrjamesob
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EJ Dionne @EJDionne
185K Followers 3K Following Washington Post columnist, Georgetown prof, Brookings senior fellow. Author of “Code Red” and Co-Author of “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting.”
Field Palaeobiology R.. @fieldpalaeo
2K Followers 680 Following Prof. Daniel Field's bird evolution and palaeontology lab @EarthSciCam, @zoologymuseum, @christs_college. We watch living birds & write papers about dead ones.
Tom Cargill @tom1cargill
3K Followers 2K Following Chief Exec @WiltonPark @FCDOGovUK Chair @theBFPG, Vice Chair @britexpertise, Advisory Council @BritainLeads. Love Trade, Diplomacy, Development, Security, Infra
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003
1K Followers 3K Following Professor of Early Modern Literature, University of Cambridge. Climate activist -- currently banned from London. Coordinator of https://t.co/ItF3NKXtCS
WarTranslated (Dmitri.. @wartranslated
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Kirstie Stage @StageKirstie
1K Followers 3K Following Researching histories of Deaf and disabled people 1970-2010. All views my own. @UKDisHistHub. Taking a break on here. Photo credit: Lloyd Mann.
The Royal Family @RoyalFamily
5.7M Followers 463 Following The latest news and updates on the work of The King, The Queen and The Royal Family.
Sophie Green 🏳️�.. @SophieKGreen
532 Followers 1K Following Transwoman, bisexual. She/Her. Political campaigner in Harrow (@Harrow__Sophie). ML for @LondonNano. Writer, Whovian, and retro videogames fan.
Vinay Talwar @BritAmbVinay
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Sathnam Sanghera @Sathnam
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Christoph Heusgen @MSCheusgen
10K Followers 159 Following Chairman @MunSecConf | former German Ambassador to the @UN & Diplomatic Advisor of Chancellor Angela Merkel
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Farbod Akhlaghi @FarbodAkhlaghiG
3K Followers 4K Following Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, @christs_college, Cambridge. Visiting Research Fellow, @tcddublin. DPhil from Oxford. Moral Philosophy & Metaphysics.
The Revd Dr Helen Daw.. @revhelend
4K Followers 3K Following Principal @Westcott_House | love schools, gardening and serious pondering | inspired by Parish life, theology & mucking about in churches
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan
84K Followers 2K Following Professor of Global History at Oxford. Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Silk Roads. Environment & Climate Change. Co-host of the Legacy podcast
Stefan Rousseau @StefanRousseau
17K Followers 831 Following Completely impartial Chief Political Photographer of The Press Association based in London via Paris & Newcastle. All pictures and views are my own.
Rachel Sylvester @RSylvesterTimes
21K Followers 2K Following Columnist on @thetimes. Chair, Times Education and Health Commissions. @timesradio podcast What I Wish I’d Known. Book: What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young
Simon Schama @simon_schama
200K Followers 4K Following The past is never dead. It's not even past (Faulkner) . Historian, writer, art critic, cook, BBC presenter but not necessarily in that order
Torsten Bell @TorstenBell
87K Followers 945 Following Chief Executive, @resfoundation. Forthcoming: Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back Pre-order: https://t.co/crkenPsO3y
Richard Harrington @Richard4Watford
14K Followers 2K Following Lord Harrington of Watford. Formerly: Minister for the Ukrainian Refugee Programme, Business Minister and Member of Parliament for Watford (2010-19)
Jill Rutter @jillongovt
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Phil Murphy @PhilMurphy
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emily m @maitlis
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Susan Acland-Hood @SusanAclandHood
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Lord Norton of Louth @LordNortonLouth
12K Followers 8K Following Professor of Government at the University of Hull. Dedicated to study of Parliament, comparative legislatures, the constitution, and the Conservative Party.
Sofia Horta e Costa @SofiaHCBBG
234K Followers 2K Following Markets for @business. Back in London after 5.5 years in Hong Kong. Alum of @LSEnews @uniofwarwick. Views / retweets mine. Not on Instagram. Lisboeta 🇵🇹
Pablo Garcia-Berdoy @PabloGBerdoy
595 Followers 185 Following Diplomático en excedencia. Europa LLYC .
Ian Dunt @IanDunt
409K Followers 4K Following Jumped-up baldy. Liberal extremist. Columnist, author, podcaster, substacker.
Moazzam Malik @MoazzamTMalik
23K Followers 490 Following Working for a more just, sustainable world ~ Managing Director @WorldResources ~ Chair @muslimcharities ~ ex FCDO/DFID/UK Amb Jakarta ~ #YNWA/پاکستان cricket
Fatih Birol @fbirol
82K Followers 816 Following Executive Director of @IEA, the global authority on energy. Big @Galatasaray fan.
David Gauke @DavidGauke
100K Followers 831 Following Former MP, Minister & left arm spin bowler. Writes columns. Editor ‘The Case for the Centre Right’, published 29 September. All views my own.
Charlotte Ivers @CharlotteIvers
29K Followers 961 Following Restaurant critic and staff writer for The Sunday Times.
George Arbuthnott @Arbuthnott
6K Followers 1K Following Deputy Editor, The Sunday Times Insight Team. Five-time British Journalism Award Winner. Author: Failures of State (https://t.co/ZwVgAbHdvN)
Harry Yorke @HarryYorke1
26K Followers 2K Following Deputy Political Editor, The Sunday Times | [email protected]
Francis Scarr @francis_scarr
120K Followers 3K Following Journalist watching Russia for @BBCMonitoring | Radio stuff: https://t.co/G5kfOvj3eY
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Bundeskanzler Olaf Sc.. @Bundeskanzler
894K Followers 121 Following Bundeskanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Europäer. Demokrat. MdB-Account: @olafscholz Federal Chancellor of Germany
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380K Followers 4K Following moscow bureau chief @FT. in soviet russia, news reports you: [email protected]
Volodymyr Zelenskyy /.. @ZelenskyyUa
7.4M Followers 1 Following President of Ukraine / Президент України
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy
428K Followers 2K Following Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://t.co/R6CMLAObl3 | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Sir George Hollingber.. @GHinCuba
617 Followers 208 Following Ex empresario y político. Ahora Embajador de Su Majestad en Cuba (@UKinCuba)
Lord Speaker @LordSpeaker
16K Followers 490 Following John McFall – Lord McFall of Alcluith – 4th Lord Speaker of @UKHouseofLords since May 2021.
Bridget Kendall @Bridget_Kendall
4K Followers 330 Following former Master, Peterhouse, Cambridge, ex BBC Diplomatic Correspondent. Presenter BBC’s The Forum. author The Cold War:A New Oral History
Frank Field exemplified everything good and decent about politics and public service. He was a genuinely brilliant man and it says far more about our system than it does about Frank that he was seen more as a maverick than as the towering figure he really was. In the US, for…
I’m quoted here on #RwandaBill and double insistence. This “post-truth”Bill asks Parliament to declare that Rwanda is safe (which it isn’t, yet) and will always be safe (which is obviously unknowable). I expect to be involved (in Lord Hope’s absence) in the final stages tomorrow.
📝 Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill will be back in front of MPs on Monday, as parliamentary ping-pong has pushed the process into another week politicshome.com/news/article/h…
@SimonMcDonaldUK Excellent piece Simon 🙏
@SimonMcDonaldUK @christs_college Are you channelling 'Blade Runner'?!
This is great news. @Braze_Baiba is a stalwart supporter of Ukraine & a very good friend of the UK . Many congratulations!
.@Latvian_MFA diplomats and staff congratulate the new Minister of Foreign Affairs @Braze_Baiba 🙌
@SimonMcDonaldUK @christs_college With such a light itinerary you could surely have squeezed in the @bostonmarathon ….?
A vivid conversation last night 🔥: The Future of British Foreign Policy with @SimonMcDonaldUK Master of @christs_college and former head of @FCDOGovUK #BeyondBritannia and Professor David Reynolds with insights from his newly released Churchill biography #MirrorsofGreatness.
Thoroughly enjoyable evening last night talking history, politics and international affairs with @SimonMcDonaldUK, former head of the 🇬🇧 Diplomatic Service and now Master of @christs_college, Cambridge. Great to welcome him back to #Boston in his new role.
Always struck by that stage in the political cycle when a govt that has actively chosen not to reform the composition & powers of the House of Lords gets enraged when the members of the Lords the gov’t has chosen to leave in place exercise the powers the gov’t has left unchanged
@SimonMcDonaldUK @LibDemLords @LabourLordsUK @BBCr4today Stop press – reprieved by @BBCr4today (perhaps they read X) - should be on around 0710.
Victoria Harrison has been appointed HM Ambassador to Slovenia, taking over from Tiffany Sadler. Victoria takes up her appointment in August 2024. Victoria is the first blind person to be appointed a British Ambassador and will be accompanied by her #GuideDog Otto.@VictoriaH_FCDO
@SimonMcDonaldUK @christs_college Nor indeed why it’s worth paying them a visit! 🤔
Thrilled to be asked to be a consultant to Absolute Strategy Research. I’ve been a huge admirer of ASR’s brilliant team for years and am looking forward to sharing insights on how a Labour government might address Britain’s huge economic challenges with their global clients.
Our latest #AbsoluteInsight by Simon Nixon is out | ‘Can Reeves’ ‘Securonomics’ Tackle UK’s Ills?' ASR’s UK political consultant, @Simon_Nixon, takes a look at the future economic framework of the UK Labour Party.
Perhaps @SimonMcDonaldUK book ‘Beyond Britannia. Reshaping UK foreign policy’ deserves a read too. At its heart, a call for a focus on 🇬🇧 soft power much more and maintaining 🇬🇧 global networks. He also cautions about the trade-offs in changes to the machinery of government.
Former Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office @LordRickettsP on the new paper by Lord Sedwill and @TFletcher on the future of British foreign policy. Thread.
I wrote this to FCDO on 11/10/23 “After the atrocity of the weekend, we must prevent this being compounded by some disaster in Gaza which will be the result of Israel's reprisals. The deaths of thousands will echo down the decades as Netanyahu has said, but not as he would wish”
After 7 October I drafted 3 tweets which I didn’t post but whose ideas are still valid 6 months later: 1st, whatever Israel does now, Israelis must think of long term; they need a political as well as military strategy if they want Palestinians to live beside them in peace. 1/3
Inspiring and encouraging conversation this morning between four #Athens based distinguished Ambassadors at #WOWAthens More to do, but progress being made on #genderequality Reminded me of this superb initiative @FCDOGovUK @ukingreece
Inspired by @wmarybeard, @foreignoffice today installed a Mirror Challenge: half our top jobs have never been done by a woman, each job represented by a mirror. Female colleagues are invited to look in the mirror & imagine themselves in top 13 jobs #DiversityMatters
2/3 We have made great progress in the 10 years since your book was published. @SimonMcDonaldUK did much to drive this e.g. his diversity firsts & mirror wall initiatives. Each year he issues an updated world map - green denoting countries with ♀️ heads of mission.
My reading this week. I don’t agree with all of the points former boss @SimonMcDonaldUK makes, but it’s a discussion worth having #HistoryBookChat
@AlexGAThomas This is indeed the last thing Jeremy would ever have said. I never heard him say anything but positive things about Sue Gray.
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