Tips for doing business abroad

It has become increasingly easy to work outside your home country, which is great news for someone who enjoys the multinational world of Premier League football. However, the rising mobility of the world’s workforce is not without its dangers.

You may have heard of Dr Daniel Ubani, a German speaking doctor who gave his elderly patient a fatal overdose on his first and only shift in the UK. It was announced last week that the British government is trying to sidestep EU read more

20 year old Alex Rawlings is an Oxford university undergraduate who speaks a staggering 11 languages. He is conversant in English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian and has every intention of adding to this already phenomenal list. Alex’s interest in foreign tongues arose when he travelled to Holland with his family and was captivated by the incomprehensible lingo that surrounded him. Rather than shouting a bit louder and pointing, as one might expect from read more

Going on holiday to France this summer?

On 3rd January 2012, the French Code de la route (and specifically Article R413-15 thereof, if you want chapter and verse) was changed with immediate effect to prohibit drivers from “owning or carrying [or using] machines, devices or products intended, or purporting, to detect the presence or disturb the operation of devices, instruments and systems for the detection of offences against road transport law or regulations or evading the detection of said offences” (my read more

Jose Mourinho, or the ‘Special One’ as he famously labelled himself shortly after arriving in England, is arguably the greatest club manager of his generation. From humble coaching beginnings in the lower reaches of Portuguese football, the 49-year-old has found success at every rung of the football ladder and has now won league championships in Portugal, England and Italy. With his Real Madrid team 10 points clear of Barcelona (a Barcelona that includes the freakishly talented Lionel Messi), he seems certain read more