Your tyres are worn.

Because the major industrial economies seem to be on the path to recovery albeit a feeble one no one seems to care very much that the mechanisms of cooperation are worn out.

I was sitting in a slum outside Gurgaon just next to Delhi, one of the flashiest, brightest new cities popping up in India right now, and I was talking to workers who worked in garment sweatshops down the road, and I asked them what message they would like me to take to the brands.