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How did I learn to read? I really don’t know how to answer that. It’s a mystery! Suddenly, there I was, reading. I started going [...]
Pearce Carefoote, author of Forbidden Fruit: Banned, Censored and Challenged Books from Dante to Harry Potter, believes that attempts at censorship usually backfire:
“When you think about the history of education, going back to Socrates, it’s all been about asking questions, arguing over ideas, raising objections and then coming to some kind of resolution. That takes [...]
Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know. Natalia Ginzburg
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A statement from Rolls Royce:
“In view of the situation in Burma, [...]
Anti poverty campaigners from War on Want and Labour Behind the Label have launched a report, Let’s Clean up Fashion, after checking the sourcing policies of 23 national retailers in the UK.
The report claims that most sweatshops are paying workers only half of what they need to live to cover basic expenses, including education and medicine.
Only three national retailers accepted the need for a significant improvement in pay and had “apparent genuine plans” to do so: Gap, New Look and Next. Kudos to them.
Twelve retailers did not respond – Bhs, Diesel, House of Fraser, Kookai, Matalan, Mk One, Moss Bros, Mothercare, Peacocks/Bon Marche, River Island, Rohan Designs and Ted Baker.
Sir Terry Leahy, Chief Executive of Tesco, was paid £4.6 million in salary and share bonuses in 2007 - enough to pay the annual wages of more than 25,000 Bangladeshi garment workers who supply Tesco.
Fashion brands have the money and power to do the right thing by the people who enable them to profit. How many more stories of exploitation will we have to hear before the industry takes responsibility and cleans up?
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