Shampoo science
The morning is young, yet this has the makings of a bad hair day. My barnet is dry and tangled; the locks on the back of my neck are in
Month: July 2013
Just coz we feel it, doesn’t mean it’s there
So the great British public are “wrong about nearly everything”, according to research by Ipsos Mori. Apparently, as a nation, we massively over-estimate the scale of problems across a range
US economists’ rallying call for a 21st century revolution
Since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to power 30 years ago, the neo-liberals have had it pretty much all their own way in terms of prevailing economic thought and
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European CSR awards: promoting another way of doing business
In today’s post-crash, on-off recessionary, pre-bond apocalypse world, it’s all too easy to be cynical about the role and motives of business and government. The crisis of confidence in business
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Time to shine a light on corporate welfare
While the attack on social welfare threatens hundreds of thousands in the UK with destitution, there has been virtually no public discussion about the role, cost and desirability of corporate
Austerity: an exercise in collective self-delusion
Positive thinking is a powerful tool. According to self-help guides, it is a sure route to creating an optimum emotional and intellectual state that will lead us inexorably to satisfying
Phrases and sayings that should be decommissioned without delay, number 1: “We’re all in this together”
Before 2010, if someone had ever told me that we were “all in this together”, I would have assumed he/she was referring to a challenge or issue that 1) affected