We’re ready to discuss sale of Man United if offered S12 billion, Red Devil American owners reveal
Manchester United owners the Glazers would be willing to negotiate a sale if somebody coughed up £9 billion ($12 billion), according to reports. The Americans have long made it clear they’re in it for the long run over at Old Trafford. Yet it appears that figure would be enough to...
Four years of flooding leaves roughly one million South Sudanese in need of humanitarian support
The number of people affected by large-scale flooding in South Sudan has doubled to roughly a million since September, the UN’s emergency response agency has warned. Estimates by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) say some 909,000 people are suffering in the country of 11 million. As...
UN boss calls on Security Council to mobilise and deploy armed forces in Haiti to avert humanitarian crisis
As the security situation in Haiti continues deteriorating, United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres wants the Security Council (SC) to consider deploying armed forces to help the country address “immense” humanitarian concerns. He has written to the SC outlining options for enhanced security support to the Caribbean country. His...
UN report warns debilitating debt has pushed 54 world’s poorest nations further into abject poverty
The United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP) joined on Tuesday the chorus of institutions and charities warning that a serious debt crisis is now taking hold in the poorest parts of the world. In a new report, the UNDP estimated that 54 countries, accounting for more than half of the world’s...
Crushing feeling of betrayal may force striker Mbappe out of PSG to Liverpool or Madrid
Kylian Mbappe’s relationship with PSG is at breaking point, according to reports in France, because he feels he’s been betrayed by the club after agreeing a new mega deal this summer. The 2018 World Cup winner sensationally revealed his desire to leave for Real Madrid, who bid £154 million for...
Lead from any chair: While everyone thinks of changing the world, no one thinks of changing himself
The second instalment on ‘human skills’ of remaining six of the 12 tools examines how to make feelings, actions, communications and thinking productive and rewarding in work places. The heuristics below have helped me transform Feelings, Actions, Communication and Thinking (F.A.C.T.) in myself, my colleagues and the thousands of people...
Diversity of human skills: Making the pie bigger has better outcomes than arguing over who gets biggest share
All my professional life I’ve struggled with what are broadly referred to as human skills. Emotional by nature and rebellious by choice, it’s sometimes been extremely challenging for me to follow the sage advice “Be hard on the issues, but soft on the people.” Now, in perhaps one of the...
Revolution eats its children: The poor voted for Brexit to protest fuzzy authority, MPs wanted parliamentary sovereignty
Let me caricature a specifically Conservative Brexitism. Of course, there was the Brexit of the much angrier and poorer north and Midlands. This was a Brexit more about distant power, wage suppression, neglect and inequality. But the mild, mainstream Tory Brexiters talked a lot about parliamentary sovereignty, which the Whig...
British PM Liz Truss on the brink as Conservative-fuelled Brexit revolution devours its children
Can Liz Truss survive? The humiliating U-turn over the top rate tax cut has won her time in the party and in the markets. But within hours of the first U-turn, her premiership was unravelling further in almost every direction. In the crammed bars of the Birmingham Hyatt hotel, seasoned...
