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Wanted: smart laws for smart businesses
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Mark Goyder argues that in tomorrow's world what Britain needs is not less regulation but a clear framework of rules which free companies to play the game they know best - winning business for the good of us all.
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Could Cameron really have a hit with 'The Chocolate Orange'?
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. David Grayson says that the Tory leader's critical comments could serve to crystallise discussion on the role of business in society.
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Standing up to what?
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Edward Bickham questions what the Tories really mean when they say they will 'stand up' to 'big business'.
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When one in three people think sprouts, be careful when trying to hand them carrots
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Mallon Baker with some advice to marketeers who think CR is a hindrance not a help to their sales.
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Why Camelot doesn't gamble with its players
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Britain's lottery giant balances its promotion of games with its responsibility to the vulnerable.
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Now it's shoppers who award points at the supermarket check-out counter
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Roger Cowe on how supermarkets are responding to the growing demands of their customers for responsible policies.
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Now, as then, trusting the lady in the white coat
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Anita Pati looks at Boots and finds that in 1919 founder's son Jesse came up with the right prescrpition for one of Britain's most trusted companies.
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Stepping on the gas as the lights turn green
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Steve Howard reports that many companies are implementing measures to cut their green house gas emissions, and that progress in some cases is dramatic.
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Tackling climate change is proving good business
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Libby Sandbrook on the ways in which companies are showing that 'going green' makes good commercial sense.
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There is no 'silver bullet' - make no mistake, this is a big battle we have to win both at home and abroad
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Success in combating climate change will mean the deployment of a number of different technology and policy paths.
Author: Mervyn Davies
Published: 4th August 2006
Filed Under: Climate Change, Emissions Trading Scheme
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The greatest handicap facing the disabled is the system
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. It is the disability of the system which prevents so many disabled from going back to work.
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For all a sporting chance
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Norwich Union highlights a programme which by opening sport to the disabled can transform their lives.
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The new deal that helps the disabled to get back to work
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. The Minister for Disabled People says that the government has listened to disabled people and got the message: they want to work.
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The grown-up companies, telling it as it is
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. Peter Knight says that Britain's leading companies are setting new standards in reporting on corporate responsibility - and not just ticking boxes.
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Fighting for a living wage in London
Corporate Responsibility Special Report. The campaign to give workers in London a pay deal that would allow them to live there.
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Poor but still proud
Families living in poverty do no want pity, nor do they want to be labelled as lazy scroungers.
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The prophet who likes to keep the future to himself
Ian Paisley biographer Clifford Smyth profile 'The Doc' and wonders which way he will jump next.
Author: Clifford Smyth
Published: 1st August 2006
Filed Under: Paisley, Northern Ireland, Ulster, DUP
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Sadly, they just won't buy a deal from this man
Paul Bew on the irony that Tony Bliar is now one of the main obstacles to a political settlement in Northern Ireland.
Author: Paul Bew
Published: 1st August 2006
Filed Under: Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland, Ulster, Ahern, Blair, DUP, Good Friday Agreement
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The awkward squad Labour wants rid of upstairs
Why the government continues to drive forward its proposals for second chamber reform.
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Bombing The Future
Beirut-based Julie Flint fears that the Lebanon tragedy will end in a new Middle East order which is even more of a problem than the present one.
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No peace for Benn
Sudan expert Douglas Johnson compares his notes on previous peace treaties in Sudan.
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Minawi's bandits could spell the death of any peace
The one rebel leader who signed the Darfur peace agreement is now its greatest threat.
Author: Julie Flint
Published: 1st August 2006
Filed Under: Darfur, Sudan, African Union, Janjaweed, Minawi
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You can have a job and still be poor
The problem of in-work poverty could be tackled by starting with the quarter of low-paid workers employed in the public sector,
Author: Peter Kenway
Published: 1st August 2006
Filed Under: , Welfare, Poverty, Benefits, Employment, Public Sector
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We won't sweep away poverty just by giving somebody a brush
Guy Palmer gives an overall picture of trends in poverty and the relationship between poverty, work and education.
Author: Guy Palmer
Published: 1st August 2006
Filed Under: Education, Welfare, Child Poverty, Poverty, Unemployment
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A mountain to climb
Is the fall in poverty from the early 1990s the beginning of a steady downward slope?
Author: Kitty Stewart
Published: 1st August 2006
Filed Under: Pensions, Child Poverty, Poverty, Unemployment
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Let's not sleepwalk into another pensions disaster
Specialist Mike Kellard questions whether the new white paper on pensions is the answer to the problem - or will it actually make things worse?
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The price of ignorance
Contrary to the rhetoric of the West, the stability of the oil market is increasingly going to depend on the key Middle East members of OPEC.
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The good news is that the world knows it cannot go on like this
The governments are now committed to setting the world on a different energy path and the future is not yet set in stone.
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Why we had to get tough with Thames Water
Why has water moved up the political agenda?
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If you think water comes out of a tap, think again
Frances Hudson foresees water as an important global issue over the coming years.
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A problem we have been trying to bury since the days of George III
Britain hs been putting its pipes and cables underground for centuries, which is why replacing them is such a headache.
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The worries about what happens next in the fight to end child poverty
Donald Hirsch, a special advisor to The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, sets out his concerns.
Author: Donald Hirsch
Published: 1st August 2006
Filed Under: Welfare, Child Poverty, Poverty, Tax Credits