All articles written by Lord Ricketts on PoliticsHome.com

06 Nov Foreign affairs

For the last decade, all the energy in Middle East peacemaking has gone into encouraging the negotiation of bilateral agreements between Israel and Arab states.

25 Apr 2022 Foreign affairs

'I confess to a twinge of envy for the French' – Lord Ricketts' Lords Diary

It’s the week after Easter, the House of Lords is in recess, and I am in Paris. As always, I have fallen under its spell. In the April sunshine, the scrubbed Haussmann facades and the fresh leaves of the chestnut trees are straight out of an Impressionist painting.

26 Mar 2021 Brexit

Britain will lose significant access to EU security data due to Brexit deal

The greatest impact on our security comes from losing access to the Schengen information System, for swapping alerts on the movement of criminals and missing persons.

10 Jul 2019 Foreign affairs

We must act on these malicious attacks on civil servants

Following Sir Kim Darroch’s resignation as ambassador to the USA, Lord Ricketts reflects on how this latest act of political sabotage provides further evidence of a growing pattern of ‘malicious’ attacks on senior civil servants