Why true Corporate Responsibility is so difficult
Back in 1996, my partner, a friend and I went to see Blinded by the Sun, a play by Stephen Poliakoff set in a University....
My bias, my bad…
Nov 25, 2020
At the weekend, I took part in unconscious bias training and, like Kylie, I can't get it out of my mind. Now, as a good,...
Business Ethics: it’s all about culture
Nov 23, 2020
While I've been updating the final Green Academy session of 2020, on Business Ethics, the UK's 'chumocracy' debate has been unfolding in the background. I...
Doing the right thing (and being seen to do the right thing)
Apr 6, 2020
I’m sure many of us are having our hearts warmed by the many positive actions we see in these dark days. The volunteers taking supplies...
Book Review: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
Oct 14, 2019
In 1996, I visited the Auschwitz/Birkenau death camps in Poland. I was in two minds about going, with a nagging feeling that I was indulging...
Back from a Bloody Past
Jun 4, 2018
I'm just back from 5 glorious days of half term camping with the Kane clan in Wooler, in the north of Northumberland. We did the...
Wiggo, grey areas and business ethics
Mar 9, 2018
I am a cyclist and I use performance-enhancing drugs. Well, one drug. I will never set out on a long ride without a couple of...
Thoughts on the Oxfam scandal
Feb 16, 2018
Years ago at a wedding, I found myself making small talk with a friend's boyfriend who worked in famine relief in Africa. I'd recently been...
Wake Up Sheeple!
Sep 25, 2017
I nearly choked on my Weetabix this morning when I saw the Guardian was running a splash on The Ethical Case Against Wool. "This I've got to...
Bradley Wiggins and the Spirit of the Law
Sep 26, 2016
There can't have been a more disconsolate figure than that of Bradley Wiggins, almost certainly the greatest cyclist of our generation, on the BBC yesterday...