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A fly on the presidential wall
I've just finished two days of exhilarating meetings with colleagues from the World Evangelical Alliance and emerged to find that while we were meeting here in Washington, just a few miles away, China's Vice President, Xi Jinpin, was visiting the White House to meet President Obama. Funny that: because we were also talking about China, a country about which many nations are concerned, with regards to any number of issues - from religious liberties to economic growth.
Dickens, ruthless champion of the poor...
Britain is in real celebration mode this week. Two days ago we saluted the 60th year of the Queen's reign as monarch, Head of the Commonwealth and the Church of England. And yesterday Britain - and the world - celebrated the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birthday. And I do mean the world.
Twitter and Google 'more dangerous than newspapers'?
Yesterday the Micah Challenge International team spent the whole day in strategic planning. We finished the day with a 2-hour discussion about social networking, and a stimulating chat about fast-forwarding our approach to media.
Bumping into Bill
After bumping into Bill Gates in a BBC studio on Wednesday morning, I found myself following the debates at the Global Economic Forum in Davos through prejudiced eyes. The Forum is a who's who collection of politicians, economists, academics, celebrities and opinion formers who meet in Switzerland each year to examine and shape economic trends in our world.
Good News for Gingrich?
The battle for the Republican leadership in the USA is well underway. To everyone's surprise Newt Gingrich the former leader of the House beat his main rival Mitt Romney in the South Carolina race to become the Republican presidential candidate. Given that this is a very religious, evangelical stronghold the outcome has been something of a political earth tremor. Frankly I'm more interested in the moral subtexts than the political results.
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