Responding to War:

Diplomacy's collapse?

This week:

• Has diplomacy collapsed?

• What you, and business, can do to avoid the damage

• Open diplomatic hostility: the shock expulsion of an entire embassy

Last Saturday I was writing “how to make a hard language easy” for the Gazette when US strikes hit Iran. It gave me flashbacks to times of “embassy work interrupted by crisis”. (That edition is postponed; please forgive the length of this one.)

Unwritten diplomacy law: crisis always begins on the weekend.

How is diplomacy hit by war in the middle east? How can you respond?