26th February 2026
Different Memories, Shared Futures: Why Inclusive Remembrance Matters for Serbia and the Region
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Blogs
A unique insight into UK foreign and development policy
22nd December 2025
Continuing to grow the global alliance for women and girls
17th December 2025
MAKING LIFE SAFER, FOR EVERYONE
20th November 2015 London, England
Our partnership with the DRC
The relationship between the UK and the Democratic Republic of Congo matters to us. We know how much the Congo wars cost the DRC with over 5 million lives lost. The UK supported and financed the creation of the largest UN peacekeeping operation globally so that it would never happen again. And we see the […]
20th November 2015 Canberra, Australia
Remembrance and reminiscences
Occasionally something happens which takes you back to an important stage of your life, which helped to set you on the path that that life has taken. Two such events have happened to me in the last few weeks. The first was when staff from British Embassies and High Commissions around the world were asked, […]
18th November 2015 London, UK
Reflections on my visit to Iraq
Looking back on my first visit to Iraq I am struck not only by the challenges the country faces, but also the dedication and energy of both the people of Iraq and those who are working tirelessly to secure the stable and prosperous future they so deserve. In the four days that I spent between […]
18th November 2015 London, UK
Legalisation: from alpha to beta
Throughout the alpha phase of our legalisation work we were measuring our work against the digital by default standard, and – inspired by the work of colleagues working onemergency travel documents – we set up a github wiki to document our work and evidence. By the end of the 7 weeks we were ready for […]
18th November 2015 Bucharest, Romania
Reflections Post A Marathon of Debates
Forty pairs of eyes watched us curiously in the library of the Josika Miklos High School. The teachers of the “Hungarian School”, as the high-school is known in this Transylvanian town still suffering the effects of de-industrialization and subsequent migration, invited me to talk to the students about trafficking in persons. Much to their praise, […]
17th November 2015 Montreal, Canada
Plan Nord: sustainable development in action
Inspiring, fascinating, stunning, challenging, desolate – just some of the adjectives that my trip to the far North of Quebec conjured up. The visit was my first to the region and was organised for the diplomatic corps by Quebec’s Ministry for International Relations, hosted by the foreign minister Christine St. Pierre. The destination for our […]
Read more on Plan Nord: sustainable development in action | Reply
17th November 2015 Khartoum
Prospects for Peace and Stability in Darfur
I come from a country that has been facing internal war for more than half a century. And I am part of a generation branded as “children of conflict”. I try not to forget those times now that I am a Project Officer at the British Embassy Khartoum in charge of delivering “Conflict Prevention Programmes”. Having […]
Read more on Prospects for Peace and Stability in Darfur | Reply (2)
17th November 2015
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
Business in Turkey: good news
Three Turkish mobile phone companies bid for frequencies to roll out a new high-tech service known in Turkey as 4.5G. Billions of euro change hands, and the companies walk away with a variety of packages and bandwidth allocations. Who wins? I wrote a blog last February called “Business in Turkey: The rules of the Game”. […]
16th November 2015 Geneva, Switzerland
How Can Geneva Help Paris?
How can Geneva help Paris? I was going to write this week about antimicrobial resistance, the stealthily spreading obsolescence of antibiotics that will cost the world an estimated 10 million lives a year by 2050 if we don’t act now. But after Friday, that somehow didn’t feel right. With over 130 mostly young people massacred […]
16th November 2015 New Delhi, India
UK innovation express tour
One week, four Indian cities and over 300 Indian attendees gives SIN an opportunity to promote the UK’s excellence in innovation and incubation and celebrate ‘Technology is GREAT’ across India. The SIN India team and UK innovation experts showcased the strengths of our innovation and incubation ecosystem in India. Experts from Cambridge Enterprise, IdeaSpace, Isis […]