Carne on The Colbert Report
Stephen Colbert interviews me about The Leaderless Revolution, occupy, and the bank. Continue reading Carne on The Colbert Report
This site hosts my writing and media appearances including news about the documentary movie, Accidental Anarchist. I am a former British diplomat who resigned over the Iraq war. I founded the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat.
A review of The Leaderless Revolution.
Stephen Colbert interviews me about The Leaderless Revolution, occupy, and the bank. Continue reading Carne on The Colbert Report
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John Burnside. The surprise hit of 2011, in our house at least, was The Leaderless Revolution (Simon and Schuster, £16.99), an inspiring plea for emergent anarchism from former British WMD and sanctions expert Carne Ross. If everyone read this book, politics might begin to be about trusting each other rather than lobbies, subsidies and cynicism
Continue reading The Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 2011 features The Leaderless Revolution
The nation state, the construct that has dominated global politics and diplomacy for two centuries, can no longer meet the needs of citizens. This is the stark conclusion of a former high-flying British diplomat who quit the Foreign Office in disgust over Iraq and who has since worked with emerging governments in trying to assert themselves on the world stage.
Continue reading The Guardian: Review of The Leaderless Revolution by John Kampfner
Carne Ross, a former high-flying British diplomat, would lead us to a leaderless revolution. His experience in the diplomatic service, especially his period as point man for Iraq at the UK delegation to the UN in the early 2000s, disillusioned him profoundly. It led to his resignation in 2004 and pushed him to create Independent Diplomat, an advisory agency for those excluded from the system in which he once served.
Continue reading State of Independence: “Financial Times” review by John Lloyd