Besides the fact that they provide the first touch points for Atlanta companies doing business in their respective countries, these consuls, honorary consuls and trade officials end up becoming de facto ambassadors for the city and region they’ve come to call home. The South, they find, is a region of both political and economic dynamism.
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Books 2025: How an Atlanta Neighborhood Affected Peace in Ireland and Beyond
The historic buildings and history of the Sweet Auburn neighbourhood aren’t just a backdrop, but an active force in constructing meaning, understanding and shaping identity and political discourse even today.
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U.K.’s Axiom Acquires Atlanta-based Audit Firm to Boost U.S. Business
London-based Axiom GRC, a provider of governance, risk management and compliance services, has acquired Atlanta-based CPA and audit firm AssurancePoint to deepen its U.S. expansion.
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Books 2025: Peace or Appeasement? ‘Munich’ Reveals a Thin Line
What gives Munich its lasting resonance is how closely it echoes today’s world. Harris shows how authoritarian leaders use diplomacy, denial and manufactured grievances to justify aggression, while democracies struggle with how far negotiation can, or should, go.
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Books 2025: Happiness Ain’t What It Used to Be
To the Founders, Rosen argues, the pursuit of happiness “was a quest for self-improvement and moral perfection,” a quest not to “feel good” but to “be good.”
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Deportations, Immigration Turmoil Fuel Surge in International Family Law Cases in Georgia
As global investment continues reshaping Southeast Georgia’s economy — from the Port of Savannah to major projects like Hyundai’s Meta Plant — international family disputes are becoming more frequent and more complex, according to David Purvis, partner at The Manely Firm family law practice.
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Georgia’s British Business Council Looks Forward to Eventful 2026
Atlanta’s top organization for promoting British business in the city is celebrating an eventful 2025 and looking forward to a fruitful new year, holding out hope that England’s soccer team will end up here for a World Cup match.
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Books 2025: Revisiting Animal Farm 80 Years Later
The salvation in the prose comes from a shared understanding with my grandparents’ generation about the significance of democracy and the dangers of power consolidation.
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British Clothing Brand Boden Arrives in Atlanta Just in Time for the Holidays
The Manely Firm is the presenting sponsor of Global Atlanta’s United Kingdom Channel. Sign up here for monthly United Kingdom newsletters. British clothing brand Boden has arrived in Atlanta just as consumers […]
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Moving Beyond Family Law, The Manely Firm Expands Into Immigration
The Manely Firm, long recognized in Georgia for its work in family law, is broadening its practice into immigration law, a move that Managing Attorney Kourtney Bernard-Rance describes as a natural extension of its mission to serve families comprehensively during times of crisis.