HRH The Prince of Wales
: Responsible Business and Enterprise
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
: Obama's Belfast Visit Highlights a City Transformed
Gordon Brown
: Stand With Malala for Education for All
Karren Brady
: What I Hope for My Daughter's Career
Ivan Lewis MP
: The G8 Summit - A Great Moment for Britain, A Great Test for the Prime Minister
For all that I analyse my own style, this year, there is a change a coming with a new mantra - "I will survive". So to put this into practice I have taken my learnings and documented what I can only describe as a guide for my fellow attendees... Continue reading...
The way in which we buy and consume products is rapidly changing. The world we once knew - where we owned physical products like CDs, DVDs, newspapers and even cars - is rapidly coming to a close. Continue reading...
Arguably, the biggest challenge that faces a footballer is knowing when to stop. In some cases, the decision is made for them but it's more common for the player to make that call. Continue reading...
As this fantastic sporting summer draws to a close, there has been a lot of talk about legacies. As well as lifting the public mood and, hopefully, bringing about a "fitter" nation, this summer's sporting events may have also had a dramatic impact on the business world. Continue reading...
It's official - Britain is brilliant! And long may looking at life through rose-coloured spectacles last. Our spectacular summer of sport and celebration may be over, but no need to feel bereft because Britain not only excels in elite cycling and rowing, it rules the world with prowess in a number of bonkers sports. Continue reading...
Following my Oxford interview, I was adamant that, even if I got an offer, I would turn it down. Being from a state school which had never sent anyone to Oxbridge, the first in my family to apply to university, living in the North of England on a one-parent income, I was sure that it was not going to be my thing. Continue reading...
If you're a parent whose child has just completed their first weeks at secondary school, your son or daughter is beginning a journey through one of the most formative periods of their life. Continue reading...
I often get asked the question - "do you think Arab culture is having an international renaissance?"... Answering the question honestly, I would argue that contemporary Arab culture is in an incoherent and helpless state. Continue reading...
Interns - an American import that is undefined and irrelevant under our legal system - have been used to fill a grey area between the two British terms of 'worker' and 'volunteer' - one with set duties and responsibilities and paid, the other entirely voluntary and unpaid. Continue reading...
It was with great honour yesterday that I welcomed the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Malaysia as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The Royal Couple are great ambassadors for the UK and I was delighted to spend time with them over lunch. Continue reading...
For all that I analyse my own style, this year, there is a change a coming with a new mantra - "I will survive". So to put this into practice I have taken my learnings and documented what I can only describe as a guide for my fellow attendees... Continue reading...
Neither Harry, Louis, nor their management has stated publicly that there is a romantic relationship between the two. Yet Larry fans want the two to be together so much that #LarryStylinson has become a worldwide social-media phenomenon. Continue reading...
When my colleagues and I began to study post-traumatic stress disorder, we assumed resilient people were somehow special, perhaps genetically gifted. We were wrong. Everyone can learn and train to be more resilient. Continue reading...
Retailers need to offer more than price alone to thrive in an environment where every consumer has all the information, recommendations, and reviews they can handle. Continue reading...
If we do not have a dearth of female talent, why the pervasive gross under-representation in workplace leadership worldwide? Continue reading...
Every day it seems a new business book appears offering advice on leadership in the modern workplace. But what actually makes a good leader? The answer is different for everyone. Continue reading...
Over the past 18 months, Bahraini security forces, aided by troops from Saudi Arabia, have engaged in a brutal crackdown against the island nation's own Syria-style uprising. Bahrain is home to the Arab Spring's forgotten revolution. Continue reading...
Lena Thiam, Plan's Education in Emergency Specialist, explained that the majority of children in this and other Malian refugee camps never went to school. In Class 1 were all the students who were learning for the first time while Classes 2 to 4 each contained students with varying levels of education. Continue reading...
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has surpassed himself in an opinion piece for the Telegraph headed A Christian ethos strengthens our nation: Religion shaped the modern British state, and this Government is proud to 'do God'. Continue reading...
Why isn't Lord Justice Leveson holding a Public Inquiry into Hillsborough? After all, it involves the press, the police, a blatant cover-up lasting years, politicians and the establishment actively assisting that cover-up, judges going along with the concealment of the truth, taxpayer funded public services lying, distorting and doctoring evidence... Continue reading...
What a few weeks it has been for that Machiavellian matriarch Sheikh Hasina. She swished into London in August to bookmark the Olympic Games (opening and closing ceremony tickets for Bangladesh's premier - no messing around with an either/or scenario). Continue reading...
Nothing feels quite so bittersweet as remembering what it felt like to read as a child, when you'd nestle in somewhere safe and let your imagination unfurl until you were sucked completely into a story in a way that doesn't really happen when you're an adult. Many things conspire to... Continue reading...
