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22nd September 2014 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 1-7 September 2014
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22nd September 2014 Madrid, Spain
Flexible working: it’s not unusual
Joint blog with Peter Abbott, DHM Lisbon This week in the UK it is National Work/Life Balance Week. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and its global network of posts, is committed to helping ensure its staff achieve a good balance between work and life outside of work. Something that can help people achieve that is flexible […]
22nd September 2014
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Christian unity and good causes: small steps, big results
As ambassador to the Holy See, it is quite rare that I get out of Rome for professional purposes. Most of the key contacts and institutions with which the embassy works are, naturally, based in Rome. Although I plug into the global Holy See network, I do that through the hub. So I have had […]
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22nd September 2014 Mumbai, India
UK-India dialogue on advanced manufacturing in Bengaluru
The grand finale of the series of UK-India manufacturing events held this year unfolded in Bengaluru from 10-12 September. I worked with my colleagues Gagan, Leena, Tom, Bincy, Priyanka, and Venkatesh to deliver this 3-day programme, which was jointly organised by the UK Science & Innovation Network and UK Trade and Investment. A 9-member UK delegation […]
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19th September 2014 Havana, Cuba
We need to fight Ebola together
The Cuban government’s decision to send 165 medical staff to West Africa to fight Ebola is very welcome. Working alongside national health workers, international NGO staff, epidemiologists and military staff from a number of countries including the UK, these Cuban doctors and nurses will play a crucial role in the world’s response to this terrible […]
19th September 2014
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Dress to impress
I recently received an invitation to talk about dress. A business club wanted to hear my views about how to dress for business meetings. I’m always happy to speak in public, but I wasn’t sure that I was the best person to give advice on this subject. I probed for more detail. Apparently, some business […]
19th September 2014
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The British Visa Application Centre in Istanbul – and Ankara – and five other places in Turkey
I don’t usually write blogs recommending that you immediately click on a link to go somewhere else. But my recent visit to the new British Visa Application Centre in Istanbul leads me to commend to you the blog written earlier this year by Richard Moore, the British Ambassador in Ankara. Richard’s blog is an excellent read, highlighting […]
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19th September 2014
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Strategic Dialogue talks in Canberra
With all the trouble spots flaring up around the world at the moment, our annual Strategic Dialogue talks with DFAT could not have been more timely. FCO Director General Sir Julian King was in town together with his Ministry of Defence counterpart Peter Watkins for an intensive series of meetings. They discussed developments in the […]
18th September 2014 Budapest, Hungary
Going South
Every 2 or 3 months I try to visit one of Hungary’s regions. It’s important to get out of Budapest, get to know the whole country and make and keep good contacts in the other big cities. This week I went South and visited Pécs with the head of the British Business Centre, Oliver Strommer. […]
18th September 2014 Sofia, Bulgaria
Ruse
by Andy Anderson Andy Anderson moved to the Bulgarian city of Ruse in 1998 to work as Technical Director for the United Nations Beautiful Bulgaria Project, which renovated hundreds of monuments of culture and historic buildings across Bulgaria. Today, 16 years later, Andy still lives in Ruse and is also putting together a book about the British community […]