14th July 2014
Washington DC, USA
The following is a guest post from Captain Graham Henderson, Plans Staff Officer within the Headquarters of the UK’s 1st Mechanized Brigade who participated in the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE). Heavy wind gusts and unforgiving terrain set ideal conditions for testing new equipment in a joint exercise known as the NIE. The Network Integration Evaluation […]
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8th July 2014
Houston, USA
The following is a guest post by Patrick Hogan, intern at the British Consulate General in Houston. Patrick is a master’s student at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. While there are many miracles of medicine that have allowed us to live longer, healthier lives, the real hero of […]
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25th March 2014
San Francisco, USA
Earlier this month, the best and brightest minds in innovation, creative media, and tech landed in Austin for the annual SxSW conference and trade show. Every year I am impressed by the UK companies that attend SxSW, and this year was no different. My colleagues at the British Consulate in Houston support loads of UK […]
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26th November 2013
Washington DC, USA
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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29th July 2013
Los Angeles, USA
While studying international affairs in graduate school at Penn State, I found others like me who wanted to “save the world.” I’m not talking about becoming a super hero in the hottest comic book flying off the shelves, but we were in school to develop skills that would help put us in a position to […]
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25th July 2013
Washington DC, USA
Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the Armistice that concluded the Korean War. The Korean Peninsula was divided by American administrators along the 38th parallel following the Japanese surrender in September 1945. On 25th June 1950, North Korea invaded the South. The United States of America provided 88 per cent of the 341,000 international soldiers who aided the Republic […]
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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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8th July 2013
Washington DC, USA
“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by the nation.” President George Washington, 1789. Judging by the amazing opportunities and activities of the last few months for […]
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18th June 2013
San Francisco, USA
Sometimes, a seminar that you expected to be interesting turns out to be astonishing. This is what happened to me last week when the Science & Innovation team in San Francisco hosted a talk at the Consulate by Alice Ray, cofounder and CEO of Ripple Effects. Alice had been invited by one of the many […]
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17th June 2013
San Francisco, USA
In my mind, when the names Watson and Crick come up in casual conversation (as they do for so many of us), an image of a three-dimensional double helix rotating slowly in front of my eyes immediately comes to mind. Regardless of your own reaction to the mentioning of these famous Cambridge scientists, their discovery […]
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