'To know another's language and not his culture is a very good way to make a fluent fool of one's self.' ~ Winston Brembeck

I've watched hundreds of Latin ...

A trade delegation visits Westminster. The formal session runs exactly as expected: introductions through the chair, questions in turn, everyone addressed corre...

When I first moved to London over a decade ago, I kept getting disoriented. The Thames, one of my reference points, was never where I thought it was.

Buenos Ai...

The soft skills that were enough five years ago aren't enough anymore. And I don't mean languages, though fluency matters. I mean the ability to understand how ...

Every Monday, a Mexican public affairs manager at a London-based organisation sends an update to her British peers. Same three people, same format, most weeks n...

Most professionals preparing for a British-LatAm meeting think about what they are going to say. Very few think about what their body is already saying before t...

I built the Slot System™ first. The harder question was what shape the other side would take.

I kept coming back to something small: the difference between my ...

There is a phrase that became a kind of shorthand during the pandemic years, when every meeting moved online and every delegation that used to fly into London s...

Ted Lasso is back, and I won't pretend I’m not delighted.

I remember watching the previous seasons and recognising my own work as a diplomatic interpreter in T...