Arise, Sir Pterry!
We were delighted to hear that Terry Pratchett was given a knighthood in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to literature – a great way…
Dumber and dumberer
We’ve been convinced for several years that the Daily Telegraph has been diluting its serious content with more and more frivolous content to boost sales. (One…
British Expat Newsletter:
3 December 2008
This week: Comings and goings – some of the factors influencing potential and actual British expats’ decisions on whether to live in the UK or overseas.
British Expat Newsletter:
15 October 2008
This week: The Terra Nova expedition – not the unalloyed tale of human courage and heroism in the face of the elements that generations of schoolkids were brought up with.
Brits behaving badly…
With the publication of the FCO’s third annual “British Behaviour Abroad” report, the UK media are full of stories about Brits misbehaving overseas. Are we really all as bad as the press would have us believe?
British Expat Newsletter:
12 March 2008
This week: Citizenship – and some of the recent attempts to define and shore up “Britishness” in the UK’s ever-changing population