27th June 2012 Washington DC, USA
I was fifteen years old when I watched Edwin Moses become an Olympic champion in the 400 metres hurdles, breaking both the Olympic and world records with a time of 47.63 seconds. After those 1976 Montreal Olympics, I followed his progress from afar as he re-wrote the record books in a fashion that no-one would […]
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22nd June 2012 USA
The following is a guest blog from UKTI Los Angeles Vice-Consul Mike Rosenfeld. Mike leads UKTI’s Clean Technology sector in the USA and has significant expertise in renewable energy and environmental technologies. He has served as Vice-Consul with UK Trade & Investment since 2003. All eyes are on Rio de Janeiro this week as policymakers, […]
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22nd June 2012 Islamabad, Pakistan
International Inspiration is part of the UK’s legacy programme, and has helped transform millions of lives around the world through the power of sport. On 28 June, 20 International Inspiration leaders, representing the 20 countries where International Inspiration has delivered its projects, will carry the Olympic Torch in Nottingham. Zainab Imran is selected as a […]
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22nd June 2012
I had the opportunity recently to call separately on the Chief Ministers of two Western Indian States, Maharashtra and Goa. In most respects these states could not be more different but they are both important, in a variety of ways, to the UK. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, underlined one difference to the […]
20th June 2012
Some commentators have argued that the UK can’t keep blaming Europe for our economic challenges. These trouble me and I want to correct some of claims that I’ve read. First, the claim that our trade with Europe isn’t significant, and thus doesn’t have an impact on our economic growth. Europe is Britain’s largest trading partner, […]
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19th June 2012 Washington DC, USA
The following is a guest post by SSgt Steve Arnold, who is one of eight British wounded servicemen racing 3,051 miles across America in eight days with the support of Help for Heroes. SSgt Arnold was carrying out search operations in Afghanistan when an IED exploded taking both his legs, and will be completing the […]
19th June 2012 Ottawa, Canada
You may have recently heard about a grass roots startup movement, by entrepreneurs and for entrepreneurs, called Startup Canada (@Startup_Canada). Sister organisation to Startup Britain (@StartupBritain), Startup Canada is an effort that’s been gaining momentum for a little over a year (the first mention of them on this blog would have been in relation to […]
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13th June 2012 Washington DC, USA
This month marks Fashion is GREAT month where the UK will celebrate all that is GREAT and good about British Fashion — and boy is there a lot! From new talents like the award winning, Top Shop designer Mary Catherine Katranczou (whose printed dresses are to die for) who, before moving to London, studied in […]
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11th June 2012
In his 2011 message for World Peace Day, Pope Benedict emphasised the role of the family as “the school of freedom of peace”, the bedrock of our social fabric. His Holiness added that the family founded on marriage was “the expression of the close union and complementarity between a man and a woman”. The practice […]
6th June 2012 USA
Over this past weekend Royal fanfare and celebrations in the UK mark the 60th Anniversary of the reign of Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee offers us a chance to reflect on days gone by, on an era that has taken us from the insides of a telephone booth requiring pockets […]