This week has once again proved that the best ideas aren’t always the new ones. Yesterday the news was dominated by M&S’s decision to charge for carrier bags, generating so much interest that even the PM felt the need to get in on the action today.

Earlier in the week, the Conservatives announced an […]

Having bemoaned the horrors of blatant rubbish dumping in Cairo – a city where recycling is a dirty word and where pollution from the city centre dump and offensive smoke belching from factories and traffic fumes permeates every space – I was horrified to read how almost 10,000 tonnes of waste (the equivalent […]

When M&S chief executive Stuart Rose was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List, the accolade was awarded for services to retail industry (no surprise there) and to corporate social reponsibility.His CSR credentials were burnished most recently – and most impressively – when he balanced the customer-empowering “Your M&S” campaign with the “Plan A” environmental […]