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26th November 2013 Washington DC, USA

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by Amy English

Congressional Liaison for the Foreign and Security Policy Group

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For me, the transatlantic relationship is personal. 16 years ago on Sunday, my family and I (and our dog Matty) emigrated from Huntingdon, near Cambridge, to Chico, California. Of course, there are more extreme contrasts than the UK and California, but as a twelve year-old, everything was so different. When we moved in November 1997, […]

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25th November 2013 Chennai, India

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by Bharat Joshi

British Deputy High Commissioner, Chennai

Anniversaries: From India to Dallas to Istanbul

It feels as if it’s been a month of anniversaries, some happy, some sad. On the positive side, we celebrated the Prince of Wales’ 65th birthday in Kerala – a date which, as he said, he proudly shares with Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. On Friday, I was asked to open the 2013 Cultural Festival for the […]

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31st October 2013 New York, USA

by Cassie Farrelly

Corporate Services Manager, British Consulate General, New York

The Importance of Being Costumed

New Yorkers have long cultivated a reputation for being nonplussed. We may well see a fistfight on the subway, an inflatable rat in front of a construction site, and an A-list movie star in fewer than five blocks– but we’re not going to let on that we did. Because in a city of 8 million […]

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4th September 2013 Washington DC, USA

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by Maeve Atkins

Communications Officer

Drawing a crowd: The British Embassy goes to Comic Con

Have you ever been watching an award show or an interview and seen an actor or actress speak out of character and… hold on a moment… they’re British?  This most recently happened to me while watching the Emmy’s last year when I (unfortunately) hadn’t yet watched ‘Homeland’ and didn’t realise that Damian Lewis, who won […]

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29th August 2013 USA

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by Spencer Mahony

HM Consul and UKTI Regional Director for the South East United States

Wounded Warriors bring British inventor’s dreams to life

It is rare to witness the moment when an inventor sees his dreams realised; the culmination of years of testing, adapting and perfecting inventions suddenly paying off. I had the pleasure of witnessing one of those extraordinary moments while attending the 33rd National Veterans Wheelchair Games last month in Tampa, Florida. When I visited Tampa […]

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28th August 2013 USA

by James Kariuki

Counsellor and Head of Politics, Economics and Communication Group

Dr King’s British Legacy

Today I will have the honour of representing the UK government on the fiftieth anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s historic “I have a dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. I’ve represented my country at many big events in my 20-year diplomatic career, from G8 and UN Summits to the State of the Union […]

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18th July 2013

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Farewell to Mumbai (Part 2): Doing better than we think

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Some UK visitors to India, and British newspaper headlines, seem to consider that business here should be ours by “divine right”, as if it is Britain’s for the taking. We have, the argument goes, a special relationship with India – language, law, cricket, immigrants – which means that we must have an advantage on the commercial playing field. […]

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12th July 2013

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Farewell to Mumbai (Part 1): Millionaires moving forward

The strongest impression on most overseas visitors to Mumbai are the contrasts: between the lavish apartment buildings and the slums around the airport, between the exotic stores selling $2000 saris and the street food vendors outside offering 10 rupee snacks, between the packed trains arriving in the mainline stations and the air-conditioned luxury cars cruising the streets. […]

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