Dear all,

I had a very interesting Skype conversation with Naakow this morning.

First of all, he was impressed that we managed to submit some interesting lines considering that the assignment was […]

Wow! Well done guys. Fantastic collective effort. Sorry I went offline. I’m on holidays in NZ and spent last night with no internet acess. I thought that I’d be able to submit the assignment before going offine […]

Apologies Luke, I missed all those caps. Sorry Howard, we hit the cut-off and went for it. Your comments will not be wasted though. Hopefully with good feedback and guidance from the assessors, we’ll have more o […]

Apologies to my fellow students – I’ve been away and just back and far too late sent some thoughts on the US – ignore them Liam! I shall be much more active and available on-line from here.

Howard

@cberrih no problem. Thanks Laura!

@Luke: sorry our messages crossed. I feel that there is a reference to aid in the UK part, so no problem with me!

Thanks a lot Liam! It looks great indeed.

One small detail: can we recapitalise the „State“ word (Luke’s correction got lost in the process) ?

Carole

Hi Carole,

Go with what you feel is best regarding UK/US aid development. It looks like we’re now pretty tight for space so it may not be able to be squeezed in appropriately. Turkey has committed U$3 billion […]

Hi guys – well here it is . The text is exactly five pages (not including the bibliography – which is normal). It has a UK entry which touches on the main issues as identified by Luke and Natalee but deliberately […]

@Laura and @Natalee: would it be possible for you to reduce a bit your section (one or two sentences)? Or it is okay with you if the references appear as footnotes and not in the content of the document? The […]

Hello again,

I have done some additional research and I think it would be best to modify my proposition regarding humanitarian support: the UK are actually in the top five OCDE countries who respect the 0,7% […]

Hello all, Great that Natalee is also with us!

I would also add the following therapy on military following Luke’s part: Shifting the use of part of their military expenditure to humanitarian support and […]

Mendelsohn, T., 2016. Biggest British Multinationals Paid Little or no UK Corporation Tax in 2014. International Business Times, 31 January.

HM REvenue & Customs, 2016. Factsheet on HMRC and Multinational […]

i’ll drop it in the forum if u don’t mind – I’m on iPad – sometimes it causes the format to change between window and apple 🙁