{"id":19575,"date":"2019-11-05T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/?p=19575"},"modified":"2020-01-13T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T11:06:40","slug":"bfpg-at-big-tent-ideas-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/2019\/11\/bfpg-at-big-tent-ideas-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BFPG at Big Tent Ideas Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Big Tent Ideas Festival <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Sport &amp; Diplomacy (Mihir Bose, Author; Dr Sarah Zipp, University of Sterling; Stuart Meaker, Surrey and England Cricketer)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/2019\/09\/sport-soft-power-big-tent-ideas-festival-2019\/\">Our second panel<\/a> at the Big Tent Ideas Festival <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explored the role that sport and sports players can play in UK diplomacy and how best the UK can harness its soft power reserves to boost its international standing. Bringing together the journalist and author <\/span><b>Mihir Bose<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Chair), <\/span><b>Dr Sarah Zipp<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the University of Sterling, and <\/span><b>Stuart Meaker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Surrey and England Cricketer, the discussion explored these questions and what impact Brexit will have on Britain\u2019s position as a \u2018Soft Power Superpower\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tent Ideas Festival &#8211; Sport &amp; Diplomacy (Mihir Bose, Author; Dr Sarah Zipp, University of Sterling; Stuart Meaker, Surrey and England Cricketer) Our second panel at the Big Tent Ideas Festival explored the role that sport and sports players can play in UK diplomacy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":19406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}