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The Trip - a 48 Hour Film: Winner of Best Film Washington, DC from Tracy Mathews on Vimeo.
Most impressed by my colleagues in Washington DC, who won last month's 48 Hour Film Project (48HFP), a competition in which groups must create a short film from scratch in a single weekend, with this short (6 minutes plus credits) film about time travel made ( Read more... )

One of my guilty pleasures is the Ask A Manager blog, written by Alison Green. Other people's problems are always grimly fascinating, but in particular in the artificial environment of the workplace, where people may come across problems that they would never encounter with family or friends and be at a loss as to how to react, the commentary of a ( Read more... )

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I've been in my current office since starting in my current job at the start of last year. We decided six months ago to move from serviced to unfurnished offices, and the decisive point has now been reached: I signed the new lease today for a new place in the International Press Centre on boulevard Charlemagne, behind the Berlaymont and just as ( Read more... )

First few minutes of this features my colleague in our Washington office (who used to run Kosovo).

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In the topsy-turvy world of international relations, one can still sometimes be surprised by the stupidity of the international system.

The UN yesterday approved foreign warships patrolling Somalia's waters in order to crack down on piracy, which is a very real problem. In general, of course, this is a Good Thing ( Read more... )

37) Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus and Sri Lanka, by Sumantra Bose ( Read more... )

TIME magazine has a short feature about us (mainly about the boss) this week.

(I was trying desperately to think of some appropriate play on words involving the phrase "in time", but, alas, inspiration failed.)

20) The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might, by Nancy Soderberg ( Read more... )

A lot of my work involves steady slogging against the prevailing political winds. So when I get not one but two favourable gusts filling my sails on the same day, it is definitely worth noting ( Read more... )