Author: Hugh Mitford Raymond

Author & radio presenter, Hugh Mitford Raymond was born and educated in South Africa and lives in the south of France with Zulu, his truffle hunting dog. He is the author of The Mitford Family:Nearly A Thousand Years of History, 2016; and British Policy In The Middle East & The Creation of Israel, 2015

Our not so glorious days of Empire … how little has changed

Hugh Mitford Raymond 13 July 2022

Britain’s foreign service was riddled with incompetents and self-seekers even back in the ‘glorious’ days of Empire, according a diplomat who was there, in memoirs recalled by his great-great grandson.