It is driving innovation, outlawing non-doms, giving football fans a voice in club boardrooms".
At elite level an obligation lies on fans to turn out to support their teams after those in boardrooms heeded strong public pressure to deny Rangers re-entry to the Premier League.
Women are more likely to be promoted to company boardrooms in countries where they hold greater economic and political power, according to research that highlighted the limited ability of quotas to give women more sway in business.
My message has always been: the figures are going in the right direction but we need to keep up progress if we are to prove that we can modernise this country's boardrooms and make them more representative of the population at large.
Take the grandest boardrooms of Britain's biggest firms: between 1983 and 2002, sales at FTSE-100 businesses rose an average of 2.7% a year.
While they helped get women into boardrooms, they did not translate into long tenures, raising the issue of a potential "revolving door".
It is going to be a big year for Britain's boardrooms.
The key word reverberating around the boardrooms of the world's most progressive companies is 'value' – value for business in the shape of profits, and value for everyone else in the form of a more socially just, more equitable, more environmentally friendly world in which to live.
Aside from the EU referendum, the boardrooms of big companies are obsessed with Heathrow.
People like Mrs Parry will be punished for the greed and incompetence of the City of London's boardrooms.
The head of corporate affairs at bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group stands to receive more than £1.3m a year if he hits certain performance targets, it emerged on Thursday, in a rare insight into pay deals outside company boardrooms.
