25th January 2013 Cape Town, South Africa
Guest Blog from Suzanne Carter, Climate Change Officer Many UK staff take a secondment into another government department over the course of their careers as civil servants but is there…
29th June 2011
…for the Geelong Cats (on the personal advice of the State Premier of Victoria, where the game is mostly played). Geelong President Colin Carter filled me in on the club’s…
4th February 2013
“Tales of Peace in Oceania”: (left) Richard Carter, Chaplain to the Melanesian Brotherhood 1992-2005, Nigel Baker, British Ambassador to the Holy See, Monsignor Marco Gnavi, Chaplain of Sant’Egidio Community. Rome,…
10th May 2016 Guatemala City
This year Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her ninetieth birthday. Born in 1926, she became Queen in 1952 on the death of her father, King George V, and has been Queen…
1st July 2013 Harare, Zimbabwe
…Nick Carter accompanied from Kabul. 25 members of the press were also part of the group, most of whom were lobby correspondents rather than defence or foreign correspondents. Organising a…
9th September 2015
…party and dressed up as figures in British history (if I remember rightly, I was Howard Carter, the discoverer of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber!). I was first privileged to be received…
6th February 2017 Guatemala City
It is always an enormous pleasure to go to Antigua. It’s only an hour (in reasonable traffic, that is!) from Guatemala City, but it is like being in a different…
24th October 2018 London,UK
…the celebrated University of East Anglia creative writing course, where she studied under Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury. Her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker prize: a tale…
30th November 2017 Guatemala City
My time as British Ambassador to Guatemala has come to an end. After slightly more than two years representing the UK in this fascinating country, I am changing my role…
21st March 2017 Guatemala City
The next morning we were woken before dawn by the roaring of Howler Monkeys in the trees. We set out early for La Danta. Passing various excavations on the way,…