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Industrial slash and burn or the no straight lines of possibility?

Friday, March 26th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Green tech, Participation, Society, Statistics, Strategy, Trends, Weblogs | 2 Comments »

In his article for The Observer – Tony Judt writes, Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For 30 years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes ...

Musings on the common spirit of distrust

Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Society, Trends | No Comments »

Taken from a post written in 2008, [caption id="attachment_5220" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/85593720@N00/2827812861"][/caption] Today we challenge the authority of our world, media, organisations and even governments via a whole set of activities that can be networked and grassroots. It is done via co-creation, ...

Modern life is rubbish

Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Organisations, Ethics, Government & Politics, Health, Identity, Society, Trends | 1 Comment »

[caption id="attachment_4526" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Modern life is rubbish"][/caption] On September 11, 2009, a French woman who worked for France Telecom sent an email to her father, in that email she wrote, I can’t take the new reorganization. I prefer to die. Then she ...

Simon Caulkin tells us why its time to Reboot Britain

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Politics, Society, Strategy, Trends | 1 Comment »

At Reboot Britain tomorrow I make the observation that George Soros worried deeply that unfettered capitalism was creating a Cosed Society in which only one thing counted – material success. He argued for an Open Society; a new type of ...

Taxing times for the real indoor pirates?

Saturday, May 9th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Politics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Participation, Society, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »

The Guardian's Tax Gap series has highlighted the injustice of companies making huge profits yet using complex accounting arrangements to avoid tax. The root of these problems is financial secrecy in some jurisdictions (usually tax havens), which allows companies to ...

Barclays bank, the real indoor pirates

Saturday, March 28th, 2009 Posted in Economics, Ethics, Government & Politics, Law, Politics, Society | No Comments »

Recently I posted The indoor pirates @ Communities Dominate Brands, of particular relevance... A friend of mine interviewed the No.4 of a high street bank. This bankers view, was that governments need banks, and so recent circumstances won't change much. You ...