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11th February 2015

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Clerical child sex abuse: making progress but not there yet

The issue of sex abuse of children by priests has accompanied me throughout my mission here since I arrived in Rome in August 2011. As I was preparing to take up the role, it was clear to me that nothing had done more in recent years to damage the credibility of the Holy See, and […]

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23rd January 2013

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Vibrant Gujarat – attracting business from India and beyond

The State of Gujarat, an hour’s flight north of Mumbai, can claim many important contributions to India. It was the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, another key leader of the independence movement and India’s first Home Minister, and Jamsetji Tata, the founder of the massive eponymous conglomerate,  hails from Navsari in Gujarat. Gujarat […]

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7th December 2012

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

The return of Boris to Bollyland: 48 hours of business

Boris Johnson with English cricket team

Many people in London, and other parts of the UK, think they know a good deal about the Mayor of the capital, Boris Johnson: judging from the number of British tourists who greeted him in hotels or on the streets of Mumbai he must also be one of our most widely recognised politicians. Less well […]

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10th October 2011

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Footsteps4good – walking on Gandhi’s birthday for a Mumbai cause

Most Indians know that 2 October marks the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. That fact is less well known among UK staff in the Deputy High Commission, but they were aware enough when they joined about 700 others in a 10K walk or run at 7am to mark the date, and raise money […]

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28th June 2011 Islamabad, Pakistan

by Adam Thomson

British High Commissioner to Pakistan

Recognizing fallen martyrs

On Thursday, I visited the Police Lines headquarters in Islamabad. I was accompanying the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, who wanted to pay his respects to the fallen martyrs of the Pakistani police service and to publicly recognise their sacrifices in serving Pakistan and its citizens. Mr Hague laid a wreath at the police monument […]

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3rd May 2011

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

New UK trade and investment minister’s first overseas visit – to India, and Mumbai

The importance the British Government attaches to enhancing relations with India was underlined in March when Lord Green visited the country, including Mumbai. Lord Green has just weeks ago taken on the position of Minister of Trade and Investment, and his first official overseas visit was to India. Lord Green is well known to many […]

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7th March 2011 Ottawa, Canada

The British Antarctic Survey, Robert Culshaw, and our second Science Salon!

So we recently had a visitor in from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a Mr. Robert Culshaw, the Deputy Director of BAS, to be precise.  We (in collaboration with the British Council, WWF, the University of Ottawa, The Goethe Institute…) convinced Mr Culshaw to come to Ottawa to participate in a series of events that […]

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10th December 2010

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Walking 358km in the footsteps of Gandhi

On  Thursday 18 November forty  people gathered  pre-dawn at one of India’s most historic sites, the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, where Mahatma Gandhi lived for many years. The occasion was the beginning of an India-UK Friendship Walk, which my wife Jill  has organised with massive support from members of the Association of British Scholars in […]

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29th November 2010

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by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

Girding up our loins

Last week the National School of Government came to Budapest for an extremely useful training session for a group of Embassy staff on what to expect under the Hungarian EU Presidency. They covered for example the EU decision making process; the challenges we will face; how the rotating Presidency fits into the new EU architecture; […]

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27th May 2010 Islamabad, Pakistan

by Adam Thomson

British High Commissioner to Pakistan

The sky’s the limit

Whatever else Pakistanis may think about India, the evidence of economic growth there is hard to deny. Last week I visted Gurgaon, the new city outside New Delhi. It is mushrooming. Twelve years ago, when I last took a look, it practically wasn’t there. Now it has all the shopping malls, office blocks and building […]

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