The recent controversy over the sky-high interest rates charged by doorstep and payday lenders now looks set to be followed by a storm over rent-to-own.

We should be a beacon for the best of the profession's values, but instead we are associated with some of its recent controversy.

The recent controversy over the salaries paid to senior academy bosses has highlighted the extent to which academies operate to their own rules.

Much of the recent controversy has revolved around 'transfer pricing' - a fact of life in the global economy that national governments are finding it almost impossible to adapt to.

The recent controversy only fuelled that obsession.