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As The Conversation has reported, COVID-19 has had a deeply unequal impact on UK society, affecting some communities substantially more than others. The pandemic has also shone a powerful light on the need for policymakers to have access to a wide variety of different types (and sources) of knowledge, to aid their decision-making in both the short and longer terms. This is just as true now as the UK gradually opens up (paying careful attention to the spread of new variants). But with COVID-19 h...

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From Minsk to Hong Kong, people power is just not working anymore Last month’s detention of an advocate in Belarus is only the latest of many signals that people must relearn how to defend their values By Will Hutton / The Observer The West’s ineffectiveness in the face of the arrant use of torture, unlawful arrest, savage imprisonment without trial and flagrant abuse of international law, even close to home in Europe, is among the bleakest symptoms of our times. The people power we saw...

Letters: it’s unfair to single out Manchester City fans Yes, the club is owned by the morally dubious regime of Abu Dhabi, but look at all the other organisations that depend on Gulf cash A City fan celebrates his team winning the Premier League. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian A City fan celebrates his team winning the Premier League. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian Sun 23 May 2021 01.00 EDT As a lifelong Manchester City supporter and season ticket holder (even in the days when ...

From Barclays to Unilever: 14 major firms commit to purpose-led businesses More than a dozen large firms have pledged to put social sustainability higher on the boardroom agenda, by joining a scheme aimed to help businesses become more purpose-driven. Pictured: The London offices of EY, one of the 14 businesses to make the commitment PwC, EY and Unilever are among the latest businesses to join The Purposeful Company – a not-for-profit that describes its mission as helping firms to place peopl...

Last modified on Tue 11 May 2021 00.11 EDT The bosses of 14 big organisations, including Capita, Unilever and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), have pledged to put the wellbeing of staff, local communities and broader society higher on the boardroom agenda, after concluding it will enhance the long-term profitability of their businesses. The Purposeful Company, a not-for-profit organisation, said it had brought together business leaders from leading FTSE 100 companies and large accountancy firms, w...

by Binoy Kampmark / May 8th, 2021 By-election results make poor predictors.  The government of the day can often count on a swing against it by irritated voters keen to remind it they exist.  It’s an opportunity to mete out mild punishment.  But the loss of the seat in Hartlepool by the British Labour party is ominous for party apparatchiks.  For the first time in 62 years, the Conservatives won the traditional heartland Labour seat, netting 15,529 votes.  Labour’s tally: 8,589.  The ...

“The music industry has the opportunity to lead here,” says Lewis Jamieson, a spokesman for Music Declares Emergency. “It can become the exemplar of a green recovery, and help the public to understand and support what that idea means.” British independent label Ninja Tune has just announced ambitious and detailed plans in response to the new sustainability drive from the European Independent Music Companies Association. The label’s funds and pensions are divested from f...

Ninja Tune and Beggars Group have announced plans to become carbon negative. As part of ongoing commitments toward sustainability, Ninja Tune, home to Big Dada and Technicolour, alongside 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL and Youngs parent company Beggars, have shared plans on how they intend to become carbon negative over the next decade. After hiring head of sustainability Will Hutton in March this year, Beggars is pledging to reduce its emissions by 46% by 2030. Speaking about the changes wit...

Ninja Tune have unveiled plans to become carbon negative. The independent stalwarts have committed themselves to the new aim, moving from carbon neutral to enact carbon negativity measures. It comes as the music industry looks again at sustainability efforts, with Music Declares Emergency’s Turn Up The Volume week launching today (April 18th). Music Week hosts a special report on the label groups endeavours, with Beggars Group and Ninja Tune fulfilling their role as ounder members of IMPALA�...