Business, Science Critiques

Dictionary Definition of a Parasite – An organism that feeds on another organism while contributing nothing to benefit it.

We need to ask if global companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Starbucks and Vodafone have become the biggest parasites in society. They avoid paying corporate tax as if it were the plague. They siphon money to tax havens, move money around the globe as part of globalisation for tax avoidance purposes. …

Are Amazon, Apple, Google, Starbucks and Vodafone corporate Parasites feeding on society?Read More »

Costa Coffee, a British multinational,  boasts the biggest chain of shops in the UK with more than 1000 coffee shops in the country and hundreds more worldwide and, on average, a new coffee shop opening in Britain everyday. Unlike Starbucks, it also pays its full share of taxes in the UK. …

Totnes, Costa Coffee and a Rocket Propelled MortarRead More »

Imagine what you could do with £9 billion. Provide sports teachers, sports class, equipment and fields for every poor school in the country? Provide widespread recreational and sports facilities for a whole range of interests?  Give programmes for children and adults to eat a healthy and nutritious diet? Set up programmes for young and old to spend more time outdoors for enjoyment, for exercise, for health. …

Welcome to the Corporate London Olympics starting July 26, 2012. Athletes, kids and adults all miss out.Read More »

During the 1960’s, I weighed around 66 kilos and stood a shade under six feet (181 centimetres).  I wore vests (undershirts) and jumpers in a large size. Fifty years later, I weigh 70 kilos (154 pounds, 11 stone). I now wear vests and jumpers in small or medium size. …

The food industry makes war on our bodies. We live in the killing fields of sugar.Read More »

The Buddha described greed as a poison of the mind. He tended to choose his words carefully. Poison is a substance that slowly or quickly takes away life. It destroys. It kills. Greed is poison. …

The issue is not corporate salaries and bonuses but obesityRead More »