Over the last year I’ve been amazed by the scale of the protests in London, Berlin and cities around the world, which exceed every previous effort. It feels like it a tipping point, and it ought to be, because one is long overdue. Whether it proves to be the moment the tide turns,...
The following is the UK Opposition Leader asking why the UK is at the bottom of the league when it comes to economic hardship. But the opposition leader doesn’t have any solutions. "Why is Britain set to be the first country into recession and the last country out?" Sir Keir accuses t...
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Big Tech also did not anticipate the tipping point where the pursuit of its vision of exciting transformational innovations became a source of system-wide, global disruptions. Among the most vivid illustrations of this was Facebook’s failure to understand the potential for, and the need to count...
By definition, entrenched inequalities are complex and hard to tackle (Mair et al.,2016), but we illustrate that giving voice to vulnerable stakeholders is a first step for tipping the scales toward a fairer and more inclusive society. Current debates about the distinction between investingwithimpa...
I could have died on a number of occasions; mainly through excessive drug and alcohol use, but also by putting myself into dangerous environments. I could quite easily have become more damaged, physically and mentally. These days, I realise life is much more delicately balanced than I would ...
In the long term, I can easily imagine an unraveling of the business model that has rewarded me so well, and—despite the effect of excessive greed in too many executive suites—has man- aged to serve the public respectably in vital ways. Who will do big investigative projects, backed by...
The funeral business has a bright future in Japan, where deaths have outpaced births every year since 2007. Almost 30 per cent of the population is 65 or older. And this year is a tipping-point of sorts. After 2018, the number of Japanese women of child-bearing age will decline so sha...
I find her on a step- ladder with a bag on her shoulder, enthusiastically tipping it into the tank. She beckons me forward. There on a promontory of sand, clear of the grey waters, sits a lizard. Its skin glistens darkly, and it blinks. Eyelids! She was excited. And legs, proper ...
The precise focus and mechanism of the rationales blaming high fertility for poverty has evolved over time, but the "Demographic Dividend" has become the most influential over the past two decades. The Demographic Dividend is an eco- nomic theory that draws connections between family planning ...