Valedictory dispatches

Here’s a satisfying day-dream: you have quit your job, but you’re encouraged to write down your opinion about the whole thing � and then publish it to your colleagues. Well, that was long standard practice for British diplomats. Britain’s former ambassador in Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer (pictured) told The BBC that for him, the quality of dispatches varied as much as the quality of those that wrote them. Alex Gallafent reports