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1st November 2011
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Movember: looking daft for men’s health
A guest blog by Miles Martin, UkrTashBud, Mo-Team, British Embassy Kyiv You may notice over the coming weeks (thirty days to be precise) that a number of the gentlemen of the British Embassy in Kyiv will be sporting an increased amount of facial hair. Moustaches in fact. Such a co-ordinated outbreak may at first glance […]
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31st October 2011 Ottawa, Canada
Understanding the power of Cyberspace
I remember just 15 years ago, dialling into my internet service provider with the hissing and buzzing of my 14.4 modem, waiting for minutes as pages loaded on Netscape Navigator. I was one of the 16 million users on the internet at the time. How the times have changed. We live in a world where […]
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31st October 2011
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Back to the Cafe in Shanghai
Back in November 2009 I wrote an opinion piece in the magazine “Investgazeta” called “The Cafe in Shanghai”. In the article I imagined hard-bitten investors sitting in Shanghai wondering where in the world to invest their money, from China to India to Germany to Bahrain to Brazil to the United Kingdom and elsewhere. I said […]
31st October 2011
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It’s good to talk
I attended a presentation on nuclear safety last week which discussed the prospects for nuclear energy in Jordan. The debate got a bit heated at times, demonstrating the strong feelings that the nuclear issue raises, not only in Jordan, but world-wide. The fact that the debate took place at all was good and it will […]
28th October 2011 New York, USA
Patch Politics and Policy
The last blog I wrote was about the tenth anniversary of 9/11. That seems quite a long time ago. Danny Lopez has written about UN General Assembly week and our many other activities in September. So I wanted to pick up a few themes that don’t get quite as much play in our blogs. Politics. Under the skin […]
28th October 2011 New York, USA
The View from Cyberspace
Guest blog by Ben Brierley, Vice Consul – Homeland Security and UN Trade, UK Trade & Investment.Have you ever stopped to think about how much technology has evolved, changing us and the world, over just the past decade? The pace has become more rapid; the technology has become entwined with our lives in ways that […]
28th October 2011 Nairobi, Kenya
Somali Week Festival
This week sees the fifth year of the Somali Week Festival in London, organised by the Kayd Somali Arts and Culture organisation. The British Office for Somalia is a proud sponsor of this event, which brings together poets, writers and musicians from across Somalia to perform in the UK. This year’s artists and performers include […]
28th October 2011
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Pilgrims of Truth, Pilgrims of Peace
25 years to the day that Pope John Paul II hosted an unprecedented gathering of world religious leaders in Assisi to pray for world peace, Pope Benedict XVI on 27 October hosted, in the same place, his own “Day of Reflection, Dialogue and Prayer for Peace and Justice in the World”. Again, leaders of the […]
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27th October 2011
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Cyberpunks click here
No-one saw the Internet coming. Now it’s changing the world; the language we speak; and how we live. I recently hosted a lunch for Ukrainian bloggers, who noted how cyberspace had created unprecedented opportunities for people to, amongst other things, share news and views and influence politics. But the Internet has also brought big challenges, […]
27th October 2011 Chevening, UK
Zameer Abbas: My first time in the UK!
This is the second blog in series of blogs by our new 2012/12 Chevening scholars from Pakistan. In this edition, Zameer Abbas, who is studying at the University of Sussex, tells us about his first time in the UK. My first time in UK! I landed at London Heathrow Airport on Sunday 25th September 2011, […]
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