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In the past few years, countries traditionally seen as mono-cultural or ethnically homogenous have increasingly sent singers and songs to Eurovision that cross geographical and cultural boundaries. Continue reading...
If Twitter trends are an insight into the mind of its users then I fear that we are a mass of witless, sexist, racist, sycophantic celebrity stalkers who do nothing but watch reality TV and third rate children's films. Continue reading...
On 31 March 2012, I made history. Okay, so I made history along with 4,999 other people, but it was history nonetheless. I was amongst the first to cross the finish line of the track in the London 2012 Olympic Stadium. Continue reading...
Nelly.com is the Nordic equivalent of ASOS - an online retailer selling own brand and designer label fast fashion - and it's just launched here in the UK. Continue reading...
Friday marks the 51st year of Sierra Leone's independence from British rule, a day when Sierra Leoneans get together and party hard. Continue reading...
Our government is eating itself. By the time you read this, whatever examples I can think of will have been superseded by a new 'omnishambolic' backlash from their policy making, but I'll do my best to keep up with our esteemed members. Continue reading...
The GAVI Alliance and our partners UNICEF and WHO are working with Ghana's Ministry of Health to plan a massive celebration in Accra on April 26, during World Immunization Week, at which the first children will be vaccinated. Continue reading...
Oh to go into a gallery and just pick a piece of work, to look at it in all its fully realised 3D glory and say, "Yes, you are just what you say you are on the tin, I'll have you." I deal with proposals from artists and art collectives who want funding to realise dream builds. Continue reading...
Six years ago, on his return from the Arctic, he seemed engaged, determined and clear about the need to tackle environmental problems. What has happened to that engagement, determination and clarity of vision? We are left asking, above all, "where is the prime minister on the environment?" Continue reading...
Dear Nick Clegg, I'm sure you love your child fervently, and want only the best for them. Like most parents, you're quite sure your choice is the right one, and this wouldn't necessarily matter quite so much, if you were 'like most parents'. But you're not: you're the deputy prime minister. Continue reading...
Sitting beside a woman in Bangladesh, watching the tears roll down her cheeks, I searched for some words of comfort. But none came. This bereaved mother, Hosna, was bravely recalling the day that her 11-year-old son, Emamul drowned in front of her very eyes. He was just playing beside a calm and still river bank when he fell in. He had no idea how to swim so, within minutes, he was gone. It goes without saying that Hosna's story is devastating. No mother should have to face the death of their child. But what I found most difficult to comprehend is that she's just one of 50 grieving mums who lose a child in this way every single day across Bangladesh alone. Continue reading...
Hollywood took on Holyrood yesterday - and Holyrood won. Donald Trump swept theatrically into the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh intent on halting construction of a pioneering offshore wind turbine test centre near his controversial golf course, north of Aberdeen. But faced with the polite, persistent questioning of Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), Trump visibly ran out of steam. Continue reading...
The front page of the Daily Telegraph, and newspapers across the world, report breathlessly the famous G-Spot has at last been uncovered. Dr Adam Ostrzenski, a Gynaecologist based in Florida, who has apparently published a research paper in the May issue of the 'Journal of Sexual Medicine', seems to claim he's found it. Continue reading...
Recently the Prime Minister's Office let it be known that Prime Minister David Cameron sees Letchworth as a model community wanting to apply the principles of Garden Cities throughout the UK. Continue reading...
What's the problem with Europe? Don't blame it on the so-called "debt crisis." There was no debt crisis in Britain, for example, which is now experiencing its first double-dip recession since the 1970s. Blame it on austerity economics. Continue reading...
A year on from successfully having them frozen, the Egyptian state has yet to recover a penny of the £85 million of assets thought to belong to Hosni Mabarak in the UK. Staff at its specially established Illicit Gains Department, despairing of any prospect of cooperation from the UK Treasury, filed a lawsuit against it last month. Continue reading...
Two days ago, I blogged for The Huffington Post UK detailing the April 23rd cyber-attacks which were launched by the so-called "Syrian Electronic Army" (SEA) against the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya News Channel. As I couldn't get hold of anyone from the so-called SEA at the time, I ended... Continue reading...
Internal communications should be an important consideration for any PR company when conducting a PR campaign, particularly during such times when the economic environment is unstable and consumer confidence is low. Continue reading...
Young people get drunk and have sex. There. We've said it. The question is, why are they still unaware of the risks? Continue reading...
Huffpost readers have an advance, exclusive peek inside David Frum's much-buzzed-about new Washington political satire, "Patriots," which will be serialized this week. In today's excerpt, our hero is sent to right-wing "boot camp" at a prominent think tank. Continue reading...
The government needs to focus on policies to create confidence - not just for consumers to spend but for businesses to invest. In both cases incentivising this to take place without excessive debt levels once again. Continue reading...
Last night, I watched a TV programme called Safari Vet School with my teenage daughter. The show features a group of young vets helping to protect endangered animal species in a South African game reserve. Whatever panics and dangers they faced, the local Head Vet, Dr Will Fowlds,... Continue reading...
