Former envoy makes devastating attack on Blair’s ‘bullshit bingo’ management culture of diplomacy

British diplomacy is being subordinated to a “bullshit bingo” management culture that works against the national interest in troubled regions such as the Middle East, according to a confidential dispatch circulating the Foreign Office.

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Thu, April 26th, 2007

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  • In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
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