Italian conservative leader, Silvio Berlusconi, was asked by a young female voter how she could bridge the poverty gap. His answer was, ‘You should look to marry a millionaire, like my son, or someone who doesn’t have such problems.’
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It was good meeting with you yesterday and discussing my father’s legacy. On the day when the nation will honor my father, I wanted to follow up with a personal note.
There has been, and will continue to be, a lot of back and forth in the political arena over my father’s legacy. It is a [...]
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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‘I’m in love with somebody else, as well as you,’ he had told her. ‘As well as you . . .’ All that honesty. All that pain. Very seventies.
Those lines from David Armstrong’s novel, Thought for the Day, made me think about that decade. Where I was and what I was doing [...]
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