Christopher Meyer

==Writing==
Meyer published his memoirs, ''DC Confidential'', in November 2005, with extracts serialised in ''[[The Guardian]]'' and the ''[[Daily Mail]]''. The book gave rise to considerable controversy. It was attacked by members of the Labour government (Deputy Prime Minister [[John Prescott]] called Meyer a "red-socked fop"),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/prescott-accuses-meyer-of-being-a-red-socked-fop-8692871.html|title=Prescott accuses Meyer of being a 'red-socked fop'|date=20 November 2005|website=The Independent|access-date=29 August 2019}}</ref> while a group of MPs urged him to "publish and be damned".<ref>{{cite news |title=Early Day Motion, House of Commons |date=10 October 2005 |url=http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29168&SESSION=875= |access-date=13 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720095157/http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29168 |archive-date=20 July 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Meyer gave a detailed rebuttal of his critics in written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration.<ref>{{cite news|title=Supplementary Memorandum by Sir Christopher Meyer KCMG |publisher=Volume 2 of Public Administration Select Committee Report "Whitehall Confidential? The Publication of Political Memoirs" |date=18 July 2006 |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmpubadm/689/689i.pdf=}}</ref> In 2005, the memoirs were included in his books of the year by Jim Hoagland, ''[[The Washington Post]]''{{'}}s commentator on foreign affairs, who described them as "thorough" and "credible".<ref>{{cite news |first1=Jim |last1=Hoagl |date=29 December 2005 |title=Foreign Affairs to Remember |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2005/12/29/foreign-affairs-to-remember/56205a5d-d2f1-4e2a-bbaa-7018e0b1aaa7/ }} </ref>

In 2009 he published a second book, ''Getting Our Way'', a 500-year history of [[British diplomacy]] that accompanied a [[BBC 4]] television series of the same name. He was again in the news with this book, serialised this time in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', and again openly critical of the Labour Government under which he served.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/afghan-war-is-waste-of-blood-and-treasure-says-ex-british-envoy-to-us_100262210.html|title=Afghan war is waste of blood and treasure says ex-British envoy to US|publisher=Thaindian News|date=18 October 2009}}</ref>

In November 2013 Meyer published a third book, the [[Amazon Kindle]] single, ''Only Child'', a personal memoir of his childhood interwoven with the story of how his father was shot down and killed in the Second World War. It includes interviews with still surviving witnesses of his father's crash and burial.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Christopher |title=Only Child |date=11 November 2013 |url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GMI3ZN8 |access-date=30 July 2022 |language=English |asin=B00GMI3ZN8}}</ref>

Meyer was also a writer and speaker on international affairs.<ref name="MacAskill" />