3rd March 2014 Warsaw, Poland
Poland – A GREAT Business Opportunity – the Minister came to see for himself….and he brought 70 companies with him… And more to the point he met 200 more while he was here. I’ve been living and working in Central Europe for 20 years this year and this is the biggest ever show of British […]
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14th February 2014 Havana, Cuba
Cuba’s National Assembly is due to hold an ‘extraordinary session’ in March when a new law on foreign investment will be approved. Investors around the world, including perhaps some in the US given recent debate there, will be interested in seeing what the law says and whether it provides them with a good framework for […]
29th January 2014 Ottawa, Canada
As a Brit abroad, one of the most frustrating urban myths I hear about the British economy is “Britain doesn’t really make stuff anymore does it?” Isn’t your economy based on the services industry, high tech, financial services etc?
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7th November 2013 Washington DC, USA
Last month, Ambassador and Lady Westmacott hosted a reception to celebrate the Bloomingdales GREAT British Invasion Campaign. The Campaign is a line of menswear designed to honour the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, as well as a ‘Best of Britain’ menswear line featuring 40 high-end and traditional British designers […]
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31st October 2013 Ottawa, Canada
Although Halloween is a night for goblins and ghosts, it is a good example of how Canada-EU Comprehensive Trade Agreement (CETA) could offer a few more treats for revellers in the future…
10th October 2013 Ottawa, Canada
A study co-produced by my colleagues in Washington, TTIP and the Fifty States, got me thinking about the benefits to be had from a conclusion to both CETA negotiations and the recently started TTIP talks …
27th September 2013
When our Business Minister, Vince Cable, was here this week, he talked a lot about the UK’s Industrial Strategy. As he noted, to some ears this sounds rather old-fashioned. In fact it’s the opposite, it’s an attempt to create long term plans to tackle some of the sources of recent economic weakness and instability in […]
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30th July 2013
“Should’ve gone to Specsavers”. Millions of Australians have. Last week they were voted Australian Retailer of the Year and Retail Employer of the Year. A remarkable success story for a company which has grown to nearly 300 stores in just five years since coming to Australia. I visited their Asia Pacific HQ in Melbourne to […]
18th July 2013 USA
I can fondly remember my first interactions with video games – first the Commadore 64 and then on Nintendo and SEGA. We crowded round them at the house of the lucky kid in our neighbourhood and all dreamed that we might own one someday. Remarkably for my brother’s generation everyone did seem to own at […]
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15th July 2013
Why does Britain like Turkey? Most of all, it’s because we want to have Turkey as a democratic, stable and prosperous partner. The more democratic, stable and prosperous Turkey becomes, the better for Britain. That’s partly because countries which embrace free markets and foreign investment are good trading partners, and trade makes everyone better-off. It’s […]
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