What is clear is that emerging factors have combined to expose big business and its place in society to increasingly intense and critical scrutiny. A very selective list might include the banking crisis and corporate tax scandals, the shrinking state, climate change and other environmental impacts, and the inequities and injustices in value chains, so horribly highlighted at the Dhaka garment factory.

Japan has been given to understand that if it does not stop with the so-called 'scientific whaling' there will be no agreement on free trade. Period.

In my new political incarceration as a 'striver' I am angry. I got out of bed this morning knowing that there is nothing that my company, the people I work with or many of our clients can do. I feel stupid in the knowledge that the decks are stacked against us, we are not on a level playing field and their is nothing we can do.

Once again British banks are in the bad books, with the recent antics at Barclays prompting the Prime Minister to announce a review of the entire industry.

'Welcome', our gracious host said as I arrived at the 11th Annual Responsible Business Summit in London earlier this month, 'would you like a Coke? They are sponsoring the conference'.

Barclays PLC completed a UK corporate first last Friday when the first page of its annual financial results was headlined 'citizenship' and did not mention profits or dividends.

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