Examples from global banks, pharmaceutical companies and manufacturing. How market analysts push for mergers, acquisitions, demergers and company breakup.

Profits for lawyers and banks but most mergers destroy shareholder value. Rationale for global corporations and economies of scale.

Talent often leaves corporations soon after a merger is announced, taking intellectual capital, customer knowledge and relationships. Mergers of two corporations and two cultures can look ...

Safety of children online. Advice to parents about online safety, child protection in a digital world, teenage access to social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook, Twitter and youtube.

Protecting young people with agreed rules for online access, joint access to e-mail, networking sites, using computers in family public areas at home.

Problems with cyberbullying. Privacy online and monitoring history of web browser. Journey together in online activity parents engage ...

Radical political forces, activism, terrorism and single issues. Carbon trading? Global warming? Environment? Discrimination and social justice?

Democracy what kind of system is best? Are other systems of government more appropriate in some emerging economies? Different systems of democracy.

How democracy could work for a global government based loosely around the UN United Nations. Should the majority global population have power to alter how the global village is run ...