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...business that top clubs are under great pressure to ensure they recruit the next Cristiano Ronaldo before their nearest rival. As a result, they are taking on players very young. British clubs commonly take advantage of the fact that they can sign players on schoolboy terms from the age of nine. And the clubs invite even younger children to their development centres and...

...business. Declining fan interest in the Olympics could lead to a fall in ticket sales, and therefore in revenues. In the same way, if consumers become less interested in the games, television and advertising revenue is likely to suffer, as people switch off from the event. All of this shows that there is a business case for getting on top of doping. At a time when...

...business as usual: for example, it was British Petroleum who coined the idea of individuals calculating their ‘carbon footprints’. For over 300 years, Modern Western civilization has sought to overcome nature (including human nature), so much so that there is no part of the world where the imprint of humankind cannot be found. Hence the recent naming of a new epoch as...