Category: Articles

“Our industry must use complaint feedback to enhance data privacy learning for SMEs when UK GDPR is reformed”

Stuart Mitchell

The Data & Marketing Commission’s (DMC) Chief Commissioner, Amerdeep Somal, issues comments about how regulators can help businesses, especially SMEs, when UK data protection laws reform – following the publication of the DMC Annual Report 2021-22. The DMC’s plans are progressing to become an accredited Monitoring Body for the ICO with an enhanced remit to enforce the Data & Marketing Association’s (DMA UK) Industry Code. It is hoped that this Monitoring Body status will be achieved by early 2023. “The DMC is working closely with the ICO to help change…

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Through Generation Equality, young activists hold the world accountable

Stuart Mitchell

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the International Day of the Girl, an occasion devoted to celebrating the girls and young women driving change around the world. From fighting against bias and discrimination to advocating for climate action, girls are at the forefront of some of the biggest battles of our time—pushing to make the future better not just for women but for everyone.   Participants of the Generation Equality Youth Consultation in Latin America and the Caribbean that met in Chile in January 2020. Photo: UN Women/Pablo Rojas…

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Ethical Marketing Podcast – 8 – Sian and Andrew talk about #ShopEthicalInstead their ethical alternative to Black Friday!

Stuart Mitchell

We’re back after a bit of a break and in this episode, Stuart talks with Sian Conway-Wood and Dr Andrew Lumsden-Groom about their ethical alternative to Black Friday, Shop Ethical Instead. Here’s some more info! #ShopEthicalInstead is a positive alternative to Black Friday – encouraging people to support small, ethical and sustainable businesses throughout the holiday season. Organised by #EthicalHour – the world’s first and largest support community for ethical SMEs, #ShopEthicalInstead is now going into its 5th year and is set to be bigger and better than ever! Having…

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UK steelmaking could be jeopardised unless new, clean technologies are progressed, EAC argues

Stuart Mitchell

With new technologies to decarbonise steelmaking, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has said that domestic UK steel production will be at risk unless the Government develops its strategy to encourage more research and development in emerging decarbonised technologies. These could facilitate the end for coking coal in UK steelmaking in coming decades. Read the committee’s letter to the Secretary of State for Business. Energy and Industrial Strategy Inquiry: Technical Innovations and Climate Change: Green Steel Environmental Audit Committee The EAC has held a short inquiry considering the decarbonisation of the…

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Audit proposals not enough to clean-up scandal-ridden industry, campaigners say

Stuart Mitchell

The UK government’s audit reform proposals don’t go far enough to fix the scandal-ridden industry, not least because they fail to adequately cover fundamental issues like climate change and reform of underlying accounting principles, warned 9 campaign groups and experts including Greenpeace, ClientEarth, the Fair Tax Foundation and academics from Sheffield and City Universities. Professor Atul Shah, City University, said: “It’s been over 4 years since the Carillion scandal, but despite numerous reports and a parliamentary inquiry the government has set out watered down plans with no clear implementation date.…

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