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29th May 2011
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The Beautiful Game
Last night’s Champions’ League final saw some of the best football this year. It flowed, the passing and the tactics were clever and the goals were a spectacular display of individual skill and talent. Barcelona clearly deserved to win playing some superb attractive attacking football. In Amman I saw lots of Barcelona flags and a […]
27th May 2011
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London calling
London was looking beautiful in the sunshine when I travelled there for the annual conference of all our ambassadors earlier this month. The Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor all came to tell us what they expected from our network of embassies around the world. William Hague announced a significant strengthening of our footprint in […]
27th May 2011 Toronto, Canada
Excellence in UK research
This is John Preece guestblogging about another question we at SIN get asked quite often – excellence in UK research. British universities consistently undertake world-class science, receiving over 12 % of all citations to published papers and 10 % of internationally-recognised prizes each year with just 1 % of the world’s population. This assiduous output […]
25th May 2011
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British businesses appreciate doing things "The American Way" at Nascar
The following is a guest blog by Spencer Mahony, HM Consul & UKTI Regional Director for the South East US, British Embassy Washington Any idea what the hottest destination for UK motor sport companies is after Formula 1? Despite the All-American feel, it is actually the multi-billion dollar Nascar racing industry. After my visit to […]
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23rd May 2011
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Visit Britain
I don’t usually write about my holidays in this blog, and I won’t make an exception now. But by way of illustrating what terrific places there are to go on holiday in the UK, check out the photos below of Lundy Island, in the south west of England, where I recently spent a few days […]
19th May 2011 Nairobi, Kenya
Somalia: join the online dialogue
I’d like to welcome you to my first blog as the UK Senior Representative to Somalia and the first-ever one on behalf of the new British Office for Somalia. My name is Matt Baugh. You will find a link to my biography elsewhere on this page, in case you would like to know a […]
19th May 2011
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The Magic of Maramures
There’s a sacred island off the west coast of Scotland called Iona that was once described as a ‘thin place’ – one where the layer that separates heaven from earth is especially slim. The same can be said of Maramures. There are many things that impressed me about this region of Romania, hidden away in […]
19th May 2011
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Partnership: What does it really mean?
I was in London last week and had the honour to attend the meeting between His Majesty and David Cameron. They had 45 minutes together. The press reported that they talked about “bilateral ties and regional developments”. I’m glad to say that it was a lot more interesting than that. So what does this rather […]
19th May 2011
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الشراكة: مذا تعني
كنت في لندن الاسبوع الماضي و تشرفت بحضور الاجتماع الذي عقد بين جلالة الملك ودي حيث كان مدة لقائهم 45 دقيقة. ذكرت الصحف أنهم ناقشوا "العلاقات الثنائية والتطورات الاقليمية" و يسعدني أن أقول بأن الاجتماع كان أكثر إثارة من ذلك. فماذا تعني حقا هذه العبارة المستخدمة بإفراط؟ بالطبع كان هناك أشياء كثيرة للحديث عنها. فقد […]
19th May 2011
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Transformational Investment
”Well, he would [say that] wouldn’t he?” Last week I took part in the 10th Hungarian Business Leaders Forum Financial Summit and found myself on a panel of Ambassadors arguing about the transformational power of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The UK is one of the biggest foreign investors in Hungary, so I might be expected […]