Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.