Most big public companies profess a keen concern to justify “green” credentials. But we urgently require a more coherent means of testing the reality of corporate commitment to the cause. This piece suggests such a …
When it comes to refreshment of the mind and emotional release, the creative and performing arts play a vital role. Their value is underestimated.
Deprived of audiences and normal sources of income, the arts need …
Conflicts of interests have ever nourished the ground of human frailty. But the resulting damage has mounted over recent years. Contrasts can be drawn with standards of probity evident in the early 20th century. Improvement …
Despite pundits’ gloomy projections at the start of 2004, the year turned out well for equity market investors. Both the UK and US indices had risen appreciably from the depths they reached in 2003 after …
Sport was one area where the founders of the firm fell out. One, a thoroughly modern man, a realist, harboured no Arcadian dreams about what once was known as the ‘amateur’ ethos: the other, a …
Despite glorious weather throughout the summer of 1995, the public mood had been soured by dark resentment. Executive pay at British Gas had become a lightning rod for malcontents, but a wider underlying concern centred …
By the Spring of 1992, concerns were being aired at meetings of the G7 and other international forums, about the flattening out of economic growth rates and the possibility of renewed recession. Growth in the …
Rather against the odds, John Major had been re-elected at the April 1992 general election. The opposition leader, Neil Kinnock, for all his success in modernising Labour Party policy, had been perceived as shallow and …
1990 was the base year of calculation under the Kyoto Protocol for monitoring progress towards the agreed target emission reductions, country by country. As early as 1988, Mrs Thatcher had noted in a seminal speech …