(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) Thousands of Hong Kong residents congregated, as they were doing on an annual basis, in June 2014 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. A catastrophe which Beijing has been wildly successful in obfuscating. However, to the absolute horror and bewilderment of the protestors, a fair number of dreaded … Continue reading Beijing Rules: China’s Quest for Global Influence – Bethany Allen

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) Arif Naqvi hobnobbed with the lords of high finance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on an annual basis. When not sharing a stage with Bill Gates or Richard Branson, Naqvi was either busy entertaining Prince Charles or being entertained by Tina Turner who belted out her signature tunes in private … Continue reading The Key Man: How The Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale – Simon Clark & Will Louch

(Image Credit: sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk) The Australian affiliate of Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), one of the storied “Big 4 Audit, Accounting and Consultancy firms (Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG making up the remaining), found itself in the docks, courtesy a trust-breaching scandal that came to light in mid-2023. In 2015, Peter Collins, the international tax chief at … Continue reading The Big Con: How The Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies – Mariana Mazzucato & Rosie Collington  

(Image Credit: Hachette Book Group) On the 3rd of December 2016, the crème de la crème of the corporate world assembled at the Clementine Hall in the Vatican for a private audience with Pope Francis. These torch bearers of twentieth century capitalism committed to a Social Compact in the presence of one of the holiest … Continue reading Tomorrow’s Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business – Alan Murray with Catherine Whitney

From measuring tails of rats in the most isolated stretch of land on Planet Earth to tending to a gigantic 191-year-old turtle, Jonathan Hollins in his primary capacity of senior veterinary officer has seen and done it all, or most of them anyway, when it comes to animal welfare, protection, and preservation. Toiling away on … Continue reading Vet at the end of the earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic – Jonathan Hollins