February 10, 2017
Better Business, Better World – but Better for Whom?
So what exactly is the appetite for ‘reinventing capitalism’ – amongst capitalists, rather than amongst campaigners? A very interesting new report has just been published that…
February 9, 2017
All Change for Corporate Sustainability?
“We’re a nation of immigrants whose diverse backgrounds, ideas and points of view have helped us build and invent as a nation for over 240 years.” Those are the words of Jeff…
October 10, 2016
Wicklesham Quarry Needs Your Help
I urge everyone reading this blog to get behind the campaign to Protect Wicklesham Quarry – and to do so as urgently as possible by supporting the Crowdjustice Appeal launched…
September 12, 2016
Green Party: All Change at the Top!
I was in Birmingham ten days ago, for the Green Party Conference, and arrived at the very moment that Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley were declared the new Co-Leaders of the…
August 25, 2016
University League Tables: What Really Counts?
Last week was just about the most anxiety-inducing in the entire year for UK universities, waiting nervously to see how well they had done in the increasingly important…
August 21, 2016
When it Comes to Bribery, Nothing Can Match the Nuclear Industry
It doesn’t take long for the shine to go off a newly-appointed Prime Minister, does it? Yesterday’s obesity anti-strategy was a disgrace – and apparently all down to Theresa May…
June 22, 2016
Forum for the Future’s Partners: in for the Long Haul
Of all the activities the Forum announced when we launched 20 years ago, it was our intention to work with business that attracted the most interest. There wasn’t a lot of that…
April 24, 2016
The Least Surprising Announcement of 2016: Hinkley Point Decision Delayed – AGAIN!
What a gloriously ramshackle company EdF is! No company does anti-climax as well as EdF does – time after time! Last week, we heard French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, all…
December 21, 2015
If Volkswagen Built Homes …
The Scandal of the Performance Gap in the Housing Industry Many people driving a new car have long suspected that the fuel consumption demonstrated in the manufacture’s brochure…
November 29, 2015
As the Government Steps Back, the NUS Steps Up!
Here’s a rather staggering statistic: UK universities produce one world leader in every 50,000 graduates! I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of that improbably impressive…