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31st January 2015 Brasilia, Brazil
Unlike in Brazil: elections in the UK – guestpost by Adam Dady
Guest post by Adam Dady On Thursday 7 May, British voters will vote for our next government. The 2010 elections saw our first coalition government (Conservatives and Liberal Democrats) since 1945. This year’s elections promise to be even more unpredictable by UK standards, with five parties currently receiving more than 5% support in the polls. […]
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31st January 2015
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Turkey 2023: why the UK welcomes Turkish success
Let’s imagine a Turkey almost 10 years from now, in 2023. The years since 2015 have been tough for the Turkish economy, as for all countries. But the people of Turkey have risen magnificently to the challenge. By 2023, buoyed by high rates of economic growth for each of the last eight years, nominal GDP has more […]
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30th January 2015 Pretoria, South Africa
Climate change: calculating the risk – and opportunity
This week the UK Government launched the Global Calculator, a free and interactive website that allows anyone to test out different solutions to climate change and find out what it really takes to stop global warming. Climate change often feels like such a massive and nebulous problem, and so for me it has been fascinating […]
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30th January 2015 Gaborone, Botswana
Botswana’s Business Environment
The imminent presentation of the budget speech has made me focus on Botswana’s economic development and in particular the business enabling environment. Botswana is judged by international institutions to be amongst the best destinations for doing business in Africa and, in perception terms the least corrupt country on the continent. These ratings quite rightly reflect […]
30th January 2015 London, UK
Consular appointments – our approach to development and training
How the appointments service was developed, the teams involved, and the first training iteration While developing our consular appointments service through alpha to beta, we’ve worked closely with our partner BookingBug to customise their Software-as-a-Service offering to our needs – both user needs and organisational needs. As the development was not in-house good communication was […]
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29th January 2015 Vancouver, Canada
Churchill’s Scientists
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s death. Whilst he is rightly remembered as a war time leader, artist and historian; did you know that he also had a passion for science?
28th January 2015 Bucharest, Romania
On Invisible Slaves and Involuntary Slave Masters
Today’s blog post is written by Cora Motoc, my colleague in the political section. It deals with a topic which is often much closer to our everyday lives than we might initially think. What would you say or do if you knew that behind your most beautiful vacations or most perfect evenings out, there are […]
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27th January 2015 Washington DC, USA
Falklands Symposium: Q&A with Dr Carlos Andrade – Amaya (Colombia)
Following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, the first ever Pan–American Science Delegation to the Falkland Islands is participating in a week-long mission to showcase the beauty of the UK South Atlantic Overseas Territories and immense opportunities for scientific research and collaboration in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Scientists from the US, Canada, Chile, […]
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27th January 2015 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 19-25 January 2015
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27th January 2015
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Never Again
International #HolocaustRemembranceDay (#HRD) is observed on 27 January to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. On this day we remember the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated six million Jews; one million Roma; 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people; and 9000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. When the […]