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Harnessing business power for sustainability

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How pioneering business billionaires are resetting their companies’ relationship to nature, society, and our common future creating sustainable prosperity and reveals us how to balance business needs with impact on nature, shareholders with stockholders, and short-term vs Long-term profits. Strategies for addressing the negative externalities and trade-offs  that arise from doing business, identifying the right metrics and targets to deliver on your purpose, and accounting for human, social and natural capital, alongside financial capital. A must-read book for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers at companies around the world. Luc Hoffman, heir to the Roche Pharmaceutical group shows us how business … Continue reading Harnessing business power for sustainability

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Concept of leisure fraught with class tension

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The Bookshop is a history of British Institution in crisis with rich historical vignettes and surprising wares.As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit or sites of contentious debate and politicking. Peeping through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryears where curiosities were sold for adults not children to the birth of brands we shop at today. Three-Hundred- years of shopping which takes in sex, snobbery, and moral panics. Josiah Wedgwood has a vision for china, and even better to … Continue reading Concept of leisure fraught with class tension

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Antitrust claim against six water companies In England threatening environmental health

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Six water companies in England have been accused of overcharging customers between £800mn and £1.5bn by under-reporting the scale of their sewage pollution, in a case that may pave the way for customers to receive hundreds of millions of pounds in refunds. Competition Appeals Tribunal yesterday lawyers for Carolyn Roberts, a former professor and environmental consultant, accused the privatised companies of abusing their monopoly position to mislead regulators over the amount of sewage they were discharging into rivers since 2015. Roberts alleges, that, as a result, Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, Anglican Water, Severn Trent, Northumbrian Water and United Utilities, were … Continue reading Antitrust claim against six water companies In England threatening environmental health

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Stealing other people’s money

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Caroline Ellison (29) has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the collapse of the Cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which has been one of the biggest financial frauds in US history. Ellison is the ex-girlfriend of its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing more than $8bn ( £6.3bn) from customers. As part of a plea deal, Ellison admitted charges including wire fraud and money laundering, and testified against Bankman-Fried. She was also ordered to forfeit more than $11bn ( £8.2bn) to the court and could pay more if she’s ordered … Continue reading Stealing other people’s money

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Bird photographer of the year

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Canadian Photographer Patricia Homonylo scooped “The Bird Photographer of the Year Award” for her image titles When Worlds Collide, taken in Toronto which beat more than 23, 000 entries. The photograph showing  more than 4, 000 birds that died colliding with windows and other reflective surfaces in the city. Homonylo said “ Each year more than one billion birds die in North America alone due to collisions with windows. I’m a conservation photojournalist and have been working with the Fatal Light Awareness Program, where we save window-collision survivors in Toronto. Sadly most of the birds we find are already de3ad. … Continue reading Bird photographer of the year

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US banks made $1tn windfall from Fed’s higher rates

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US banks made $1tn windfall profit by failing to pass on to savers the higher interest rates that were kept in place by the Federal Reserve for the past two and half years. Lenders earned higher yields for their deposits at the Fed but kept rates lower for many savers, according the review of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation data. The boost to the country’s in excess of 4, 000 banks has helped increase their profit margin. While rates on some savings accounts were raised in line with the Fed’s target of more than 5 per cent, the majority of depositors, … Continue reading US banks made $1tn windfall from Fed’s higher rates

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Humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes

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MacCulloch notes that for the vast majority of people throughout this history, marriage was a “contract between two men” that is between two fathers. And  that “When church weddings did start appearing, patchily, in the fourth century, the Church did not offer them to all the faithful”. Three categories of marriage emerged: the “Glorious ( imperial elite) , the “middle” ( imperial officers), and the “vile” (everyone else), with the vast majority of unions in the last category having no involvement from the Church at all. He rebukes contemporary Christians for asserting that there is a “Christian understanding of marriage” … Continue reading Humanity’s deepest desires, fears and hopes

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Wild Goose

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“ WILD GOOSE” – A NEW NOVEL BY VERY ESTABLISHED WRITER ANDPOET – SALLY EVANS Sally is a poet working in long and formal styles. She was editor of PoetryScotland broadsheet 1997-2018, and hosted the popular Callander Poetry Weekends that ran for nearly 20 years. She has published poetry widely in magazines and books, translated Gaelic poetry, and been a poetry editor of the Scots Language Centre’s website. At Diehard Press, she has edited and published books by many other poets.Sally has read and performed poetry at StAnza, in all the Scottish cities and throughout England, especially the North. She has led workshops … Continue reading Wild Goose

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Harness our inner power

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The Japanese phenomenon that reaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness. How to free yourself, Change your life and achieve real happiness. “Your life is not something that someone gives you, but something you choose yourself. You are the one who decides how you live.” The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of the 19th-century psychology alongside Freud … Continue reading Harness our inner power

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TGI Friday’s UK operator Hostmore, has gone into administration risking 4, 500 jobs

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87 of the chain’s restaurants have been put up for sale as owner Hostmore, a hospitality company, struggles with debt and heavy losses, and hopes to complete the sale by the end of September which would keep the brand running  and help to secure jobs. Hostmore said the American-inspired chain “ continues to operate normally and all existing stores remain open. The sale process remains ongoing, with no decisions having been made  to close any existing stores”. Hostmore also said it had attempted to buy the US operator of TGI Fridays for £177m but that the deal collapsed. PwC the Accountants found … Continue reading TGI Friday’s UK operator Hostmore, has gone into administration risking 4, 500 jobs