Alastair Hanton (1926 - 2021) - Social entrepreneur and banking innovator    Alastair Hanton introduced Direct Debit to the UK, started National Girobank, founded the Fair Trade Foundation, and through his transport campaigning saved countless lives. He achieved a remarkable amount of change over a long life of persistent enterprise and collaboration.    At Cambridge Alastair read mathematics and economics but seems also to have studied kindness: all three subjects were to guide the following 75 years.     In 1948 he joined the Government’s CDC (the Commonwealth Development Corporation) which planned the building of hospitals and roads in the poorest countries.     One of these was Malawi, in East Africa, where Alastair was sent in 1950, travelling by ship and train, and stopping off in South Africa where he was horrified to see the beginnings of apartheid - against which he later fought.     After several years he moved back to Britain,...