Foreign Office

Other times Foreign Office came up

1. He was a socialist but he didn't like the communists. Yes that's right. What I always thought of 1984 was about how communism had gone wrong a bit, wasn't it? Yeah. I think anyway. But he kept a sort of McCarthyite list of people who were communists or fellow travelers which he then just before he died he gave it to the Foreign Office. That's right. Did he? Yes that's right. He dobs.

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2. In his election campaign, one of the ways he won is that he swore he'd throw the Brits out of the Falklands. Then as soon as he did win, he started really trying to... trying to ingratiate himself with Britain, to the extent that he angled desperately, according to the Guardian, for an invitation to Buckingham Palace. Many times did he announce that he had been invited to London that the Foreign Office eventually had to let him come. Which I didn't know you could do that.

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3. Did you read one of the other amazing pieces of protocol they had to go through that day when Britain declared war was that the, was at the Foreign Office sent out loads of telegrams to all the consulates around the world. that we were vaguely affiliated with, warning them we're about to go to war.

   No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen ⏱ 00:07:07

4. This is from an article in the Times Literary Supplement, which is great by the way, highly recommended, and there was a British diplomat called Harold Nicholson who was working at the Foreign Office, and one day he was told, we've declared war on Germany, but we screwed it up, and we sent the letter which doesn't quite say the right phrase, I think.

   255: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen ⏱ 00:00:48