Former British International Workplace official Chris Merritt joins us to debate his time as a diplomat in Iraq, Gaza, and Jerusalem, together with Basra’s deteriorating safety scenario, Iranian-backed militias, Hamas, the Fatah break up, and the realities of doing diplomacy in warfare zones. He additionally breaks down how these experiences formed his later work as a trauma psychologist and spy novelist, together with Dedicated and his new ebook Octagon.
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00:00 — Begin / Chris Merritt joins The Crew Home
01:02 — Rising up close to London, languages, and the street towards international service
05:03 — Studying Arabic and getting drawn into Center East geopolitics
06:08 — Making use of to the British International Workplace and surviving the evaluation course of
10:10 — First International Workplace job and wanting one thing extra energetic
12:18 — Volunteering for Iraq and deploying to Basra in 2005
17:04 — Britain’s function in southern Iraq and the worsening IED menace
19:03 — Diplomatic work in a warfare zone: gathering floor reality in Basra
23:47 — Iranian-backed militias, helicopter shootdowns, and the badger conspiracy
27:41 — “Aggressive diplomacy” and dealing alongside the British navy
30:05 — Rockets, mortars, and watching Basra deteriorate
32:53 — SAS contacts, shut safety, and hostile-environment coaching
39:15 — Jerusalem, Gaza, and dealing the Palestinian facet of the battle
43:53 — Hamas wins elections, the Fatah break up, and Gaza’s energy wrestle
47:26 — Attempting to know Hamas with out being allowed to speak to them
50:07 — The Alan Johnston kidnapping and negotiating by way of Gaza intermediaries
51:40 — Why the Israel-Palestine battle felt more and more not possible to resolve
57:17 — Israel’s rightward shift, Gaza after October 7, and the way forward for the area
01:01:37 — Returning to London, Gulf coverage, and shifting towards psychology
01:05:25 — Leaving the International Workplace and retraining as a trauma psychologist
01:17:15 — From diplomacy and trauma work to writing novels
01:22:29 — Octagon: MI6, SAS, terror plots, and writing genuine spy fiction
01:24:21 — Why spy thrillers are having a resurgence
01:27:53 — Dedicated, Octagon, the place to seek out Chris, and shutting ideas
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