Thanks to the internet, the opportunities for going out on your own and starting a business are endless. Sectors tipped for big growth in 2018 include advertising and marketing, construction, and technology[1]. There has been a rapid rise in self-employment since the 2008 financial crash, which is also around the same time as when social […]
…87 million. That’s the estimated number of Facebook user profiles which may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica[1] to date. At the end of the fourth quarter in 2017, Facebook could boast 2.2 billion active users[2]. This means almost a third of the world’s population has been freely giving a corporation uninhibited access to […]
Few people are more lauded and admired than firefighters, and rightly so. Every day, these extraordinary men and women put their lives on the line to save others. Their job not only involves rushing into burning buildings as everyone else runs out, they are often first on the scene of serious car accidents, natural disasters […]
Protecting donors’ privacy and complying with the principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 are an imperative part of charity management and administration. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on 25th May 2018 and present charities with a new set of complex legal requirements to factor in, with stringent penalties […]
Stocker v Stocker[1] It is hard to fathom that Facebook has only existed in the mainstream for ten-years. The social media platform has completely transformed how we interact with each other, both personally and professionally, and this has occurred in almost every country in the world. As of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had […]
Britain has been cementing itself as a world-class technology hub for many years and has attracted millions of pounds in investment from all over the world. The UK was ranked as the third most promising market for innovation, disruption and technology breakthroughs in KPMG’s 2018 Global Technology Innovation Report. It is only led by the […]
In early March, many leading investors and experts met at the Sukuk Summit 2018 in London to discuss one of the oldest and most underdeveloped elements of the global market – Islamic finance. At the Summit, delegates specifically focused on the Sukuk: a bond structured to generate returns to investors whilst complying with Islamic finance […]
The BBC has published a retraction of a statement made by BBC presenter Andrew Neil on BBC1’s This Week about a nationally and internationally prominent UK scholar, academic and jurist, Dr Haitham al-Haddad. Mr Neil had stated on This Week on 5 March 2015 that Dr al-Haddad believes that Jews are descended from pigs. The […]
Allegations of serious sexual misconduct have hit the charities sector hard. The crises in the charity sector began in early February, with allegations that senior Oxfam staff had engaged the services of sex workers in Haiti, while supporting locals following the 2010 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince. Some of the girls exploited by the aid workers […]
