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Catherine Royle

@catheriner.bsky.social
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Principal of Somerville College Oxford. Recovering British diplomat & former Ambassador. Worked for NATO too. Here with my own views. Think we can do better in our world

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/07/2026
🚨 With Andy Burnham officially the next leader of the Labour Party, and due to name his cabinet on Monday, who would you have in yours? ⚠️ Will Ed Miliband be your Chancellor or will it be Martin Lewis? Will Jude Bellingham take on culture and sport or will Wes Streeting?
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Fantasy Cabinet Builder - Best for Britain
With Keir Starmer standing down and Labour choosing its next leader, the front bench is up for grabs. Pick from every cu
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Catherine Royle @catheriner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I remember laughing when someone had an electoral slogan “Argentina - un país en serio”. Now we have Big Nige vs Count Binface putting the great in Britain
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Catherine Royle @catheriner.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@therestpolitics.bsky.social Given that Mandy’s appointment had already been announced, and his past already well documented, is it realistic to think that FCDO officials could have reasonably expected any vetting doubts to change anyone’s view?
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A special episode of #BehindtheLines, a live event with three sanctuary scholars from @somervillecollege.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Three young academics displaced by conflict now changing the world, not just talking about it! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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THE SANCTUARY SCHOLARS Meet the displaced academics rewriting the future
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 24 March · 1h 6m
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Catherine Royle @catheriner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Seems like a good moment to ensure our foreign policy effort is properly funded and staffed rather than cutting FCDO yet again. If you don’t spend in diplomacy, you end up spending on bullets and with lives
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Catherine Royle @catheriner.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Very confused as to why US needs to take over Greenland to defend its interests. Don’t remember it taking over West Germany to do that during the Cold War. I think that’s the point of the Alliance called NATO.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
🚨🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE🚨🚨 Very few people can claim to have met and known 🇻🇪's Maduro, Chavez & interim president Delcy Rodriguez. Well, my guest @catheriner.bsky.social, former 🇬🇧 ambassador in Caracas, is one of them and she spoke to me earlier today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: Maduro, Chavez, Delcy Rodriguez and where we're going in Venezuela
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 04/01/2026 · 45m
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Catherine Royle @catheriner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Question for the history buffs. Is Trump 2 more like the dissolution of the monasteries or the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1967?
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Catherine Royle @catheriner.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
How about we all write Elon a letter suggesting good things he could do with his money and how we much we would appreciate that. Like providing a clean water supply for everyone on Africa? Or funding teachers to make as many people as possible literate?
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