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Risk-taking is after all what you would expect from entrepreneurs, many of whom have not just made huge fortunes but also lost them in spectacular bankruptcies…

'What is glimpsed at such times is a sense of what democracy could be: a notion of radical self-rule.'…

The really quite extraordinary growth of fair trade has not, of course, come without pain…

'Given the 1 billion hungry people in the world today and the need to increase global food production by 50% by 2050 under increasingly challenging conditions, you don’t have to be a greenie to lose sleep over climate change.'…

Peter Steven explores the diversity of world media in the No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media and in this blog introduces a media phenomenon in Africa…

Surveillance has truly become a global state in its own right…

'The book is based on a simple proposition – that the opposite of poverty is not wealth, but sufficiency…

'When I researched The No Nonsense Guide to Tourism, I was fascinated by the way the concept of 'paradise' was created by the tourism industry and the way we bought into it, hook, line and sinker.'…

Enter the babies of mass destruction...…

Sophie Roumat reports on last month's destruction of the 'Jungle' - the Calais camp which housed Afghan asylum seekers…