On this show I am joined in the studio by fellow Londoner and comrade Carne Ross. Between 1997and 1998, Carne was a speechwriter to the British Foreign Secretary, preparing speeches on all areas of British foreign policy. He then moved to UK delegations on the UN Security Council, where he worked on the drafting and negotiation of several important Security Council resolutions. 

Ross resigned from the British foreign office in 2004, after giving damming evidence to an official inquiry into the use of intelligence on WMD in advance of the 2003 Iraq war.

Ross founded Independent Diplomat in 2004 to address the “diplomatic deficit” created by a diplomatic system that all too often excludes or marginalises many governments and groups most affected by the decisions made within it, and usually those who are suffering the most.

He is Author of, The Leaderless Revolution (how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21st century), independent diplomat (despatches from an unaccountable elite), and his latest offering There we are human again (a diplomat’s journey to anarchism).