31
JAN
2016

The one about Tesco

As has been widely reported [*1], Tesco was done last week for contravening the UK “groceries code”.  Widespread evidence of “payments delayed to disguise missed targets, and suppliers left waiting for million-pound payments for up to two years. Sometimes there were arbitrary or...
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23
DEC
2015

Thomas Cook. Don’t book it

In his excellent book, The corporation, Joel Bakan writes, As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others. This is a case study.  Unlike my blog on Talk talk, I have had to rely on media reports as I...
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