The UK as a leading player in sustainable design; the UK at the cutting edge of automotive processes; the UK as a home of creative entrepreneurs and as an inspiration for legacy bands worldwide….
Musings on the back of one of my inward investment scripts? In fact headline banners from the British Week in Mexico which [...]

 Britain and Mexico are at least 10 hours away from each other by plane, yet it often feels as if this distance is nothing.
 
Britain’s creative presence for instance is so very active here. In my last blog I mentioned the warm welcome given to Coldplay’s tour in Mexico. I will miss Elton John singing on [...]

Mexico is a big country:  8 times the size of  the UK with some 108 million people.  Although most businessmen head for Mexico City, there are many other towns and states competing for trade.
I was reminded of this last week when the Governor of the state of Nuevo Leon came to the British Embassy in [...]

From thermal ceramics plants to gas compression stations, from fashion shows to mobile schools, from Shakespeare competitions to business talks and all within 48 hours.  A whistle stop tour of British interests in Mexico.
 
Part of my normal work as UK Ambassador in Mexico City?  It could have been. In fact these were part of a [...]

I’ve been in this posting since last September. It’s great: both well known and yet still quite unknown in the UK. A country which hit the headlines last year for all the wrong reasons: like swine flu, recession and violence.
But a country which has pulled out of many of these problems. A country visited by [...]