Two things crossed my Twitter feed this week that got me thinking about our relationship with charities.

The first was this story in charity trade magazine Third Sector. In it, philanthropist Gina Miller sets out a series of attacks on the charity sector - lashing out at "careerists"...

As a memorable year draws to a close, I thought we'd get in the end-of-year-review spirit and look at some of the biggest people-powered campaigns of 2012.

These are a just a few examples people coming together to make a difference in 2012. There are thousands more and every single...

On Monday this week representatives of Starbucks, Amazon and Google faced MPs to have their companies' tax affairs scrutinised in a quite ferocious manner. Select committees have become a kind of reality show where MPs get to look look tough and funny and deliver a few zingers at...

To put it how a player might, football's had a shocker. After a week of abject racism and thuggery, Reading striker Jason Roberts was joined by Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand and other professional footballers in deciding to make a point about racism in football by not wearing the Kick...

It's very, very difficult to feel sorry for George Osborne or Theresa May, or indeed any politician who puts themselves up for a photo opportunity that backfires. But I did feel a tiny twinge of sympathy when the boos rang out in the Olympic Stadium as they handed out the...

As of today, around 165,000 people have signed it. A very quick search throws up over 2,000 bits of media coverage about it. One of the great social injustices of our time? Nope. Richard Branson's lost the franchise for the West Coast Main Line rail service. Despite the...