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If this play is correct, the Foreign Office is a joke
['Lloyd Evans', 'Dimitri Burshtein', 'The Spectator Australia', 'Tom Switzer', 'Judith Sloan', 'Jacob Heilbrunn', 'Laurie Wastell']
The Spectator Australia
Safe Haven is a history play by Chris Bowers who worked for the Foreign Office and later for the UN as a human-rights activist.
Catherine believes that the Foreign Office exists to throw money at basket-case countries that lack the maturity to govern themselves.
And yet she’s a high-flyer at the Foreign Office where her career is being nurtured by a jingoistic technocrat named Clive.
When Clive returns home he’s confronted by his activist wife who berates him and forces him to adopt her prejudices when shaping Britain’s foreign policy.
‘The Foreign Office helps foreigners.