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With an imminent end to lockdown in the UK, the authorities have been trying to educate the public about the balance of risk, the need to make sound judgements about the trade-offs we make in our [...]

What links Reputation, Risk and ESG? For boardrooms they are all important but separate concerns; however there is a common theme in that they all involve prediction of the future. Now a new book [...]

What is your view on tax avoidance by international corporations? There is some debate about what constitutes good governance according to the principles of ESG investing. I mean legitimate tax [...]

The UK government is reluctant to mandate vaccine passports as part of the route-map out of lockdown. There are concerns about ethics, discrimination, rights and privacy which the Prime Minister [...]

Yesterday I joined the 13 million already vaccinated in the UK. Within just over a fortnight weeks this should give me around 65% immunity; my second dose within 12 weeks should raise this [...]

The UK vaccination rate is impressive but little attention is paid to the infection rate which is crucial if the virus is to be defeated. Testing has increased since last year with more [...]

While investors continue to pile into ESG funds, recent research shows that corporate boards still don’t fully appreciate that ESG should be integral to strategy. The PwC corporate directors [...]

Last week the medicines regulator (MHRA) refused to approve mass daily testing in schools, yet next week teachers will be required to take virus tests twice a week, so what has prompted this [...]

The UK government applies lockdown differently to many other countries, preferring to encourage new habits of social interaction rather than dictate or prescribe them. However, using language [...]

As we approach the first anniversary of the pandemic outbreak, it is clear that the future of work is going to change forever, and normal is not something to which reversion is possible. Managing [...]