Since its inception in the 1990s, businesses have come a long way on Corporate Social Responsibility, says Stefan Crets, executive director of CSR Europe, a network of multinationals involved in CSR policies. More »

“Control orders” could be called “secret detention directives”. “Tax exiles” could be called “tax fugitives”. “Extraordinary rendition” could be called “government-sponsored kidnapping”. In all three cases a fairly benign phrase has been adopted by both sides of the debate, despite the phrase very much favouring one. Having a ...

Released in 1935, “Song of China” was the first Chinese film given US release. However, the dialogue was a little prosaic for exquisite and decadent occidental sensibilities. While the usual complaint about English subtitles is poor grammar and erroneous vocabulary,...

It’s something that really bugs me about the British left: So there is a value to industrial action that is innate to the process, regardless of the outcome: it keeps the vocabulary, the mechanics and the muscle of conflict alive. These are things we’re going to have more and more use for. They can

Via, this: He had major rhythmic problems and his harmonic and melodic vocabulary was extremely limited, mostly to pentatonic based and blues-lick derived patterns, and he basically exhibited only a rudimentary understanding of how to function as a professional soloist in an ensemble – Lorber was basically playing him off the

Listening to BBC news, it's striking how they are still using Labour's politically-charged vocabulary. When the universities are kicking off about their budgets being cut, the BBC newsreaders are told to talk about "investment" in higher education, rather than spending. Why, though? An "investment" would be to put £1 billion of taxpayers’ money into an Emer...

Children from the poorest families are almost a year-and-a-half behind the richest children in vocabulary tests by the time they reach school age, says an education think-tank

With "referendum" dominating the political vocabulary, the Politics Show took the word onto the street with shoppers in Cardiff to test the mood.

The Home Office has recently published a review of the research into how to improve public confidence in the police. One of their conclusions? The very community politics idea, expressed in very New Labour vocabulary, that The strategies most likely to be effective in improving confidence are initiatives aimed at increasing community engagement. Three out of

This could be the year when "sovereign credit default swaps" enters the vocabulary of tabloid newspapers