If the recent civil disturbances in England showed the worst side of human nature, the aftemath shows a more positive side.  Both the army of volunteers cleaning up affected areas (Riot Wombles, RiotCleanup)

The irony is not lost on many that the current ethical scandal that is fuelling global media, the story making front pages around the world and clogging all that is cyber, is indeed about the media itself.  The story is the story. And the story is of ethics.

The News of the World (NoW) the most profitable UK Sunday newspaper with the highest circulation and  known as the most read paper in the English language was dramatically closed yesterday by News International.

The British Museum is an amazing place - well worth a visit if you are ever in London.  Describing itself as a museum of the world for the world, it has a bold global agenda to help us all understand the past and shape our future.  So it made a perfect location for the CIMA bi-annual Howitt lecture 'Global governance - time for a behavioural revolution' which was delivered this year by CIMA's Professor of Accounting and Financial Management at the London School of Economics, Wim Van der Stede.

You will have read about CIMA's involvement in an exciting collaborative project with PwC and Tomorrow's Company researching the barriers to the effective development of corporate reporting.

Here in the United Kingdom, there has been a major shake-up of the City, as revealed on Tuesday night by the new Chancellor George Osborne.

We were at our Friend's house and he  received a phone call yesterday, and the caller asking for his wife. Before passing the phone, he asked who the caller was and received a response that due to Data Protection Act, she couldn't disclose it other than to his wife !

He, of course, passed on the phone to his wife as she was busy feeding her toddler and it turned out to be a marketing call for Mobile Phone upgrade deal from CarphoneWarehouse !

It feels like I’ve hardly been in the office this month, and when I’ve been there it has been more in mind than in spirit. More about that later...

Last week started with a trip down to London for a Kings Fund event as part of our ‘Experiential Learning’ program. Over two days, we learnt about Social Enterprise. Then we had to come up with an idea for a venture of our own and pitch it to the room.

I LOST MY ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE. HOW TO GET AN REPLACEMENT FROM THE INSTITUTE. ANY SPECIFIC PROCDURES.

RAM

Both the UK and US governments have recently brought out guidelines on how the banking sector should remunerate its employees. Do you think they are right to do this? Are these governments interfering in business or do we need more of this type of regulation to stop the same mistakes from being made in the future?

 Have you had experience of the government in your region taking any similar steps?

Is there no escape from state regulation or the knee jerk reaction that gave us the burdens of Sarbanes-Oxley in the wake of Enron and World Comm? Not much, according to Kenneth Minogue, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics.