27 July 2023 , 21:24
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Fast-fashion has turned into an environmental catastrophe with throwaway clothes being dumped in developing countries such as Ghana. Our special investigation into toxic waste proves that clothes we readily discard, often made by exploited workers, go on to pollute.
The big household brands involved mustn’t be allowed to wash their hands of responsibility for this. We are what we wear to some extent and paying a little more, even in a cost of living crisis, for clothes we’ll keep longer and wear more often would be a cultural change that would benefit the earth.
It’s time to re-think a damaging throwaway culture where nature pays the price. No individual is to blame when this is a national and indeed global issue. Yet it is quite clear that change is needed.
Gas blighting
We are the losers and British Gas is the winner as it boasts a near £1-billion profit in the cost of living crisis. Companies exist to make money, but the Government is sanctioning a racket by permitting firms to make such a killing at a time when their customers can least afford it.
The Tories will never escape condemnation when they are so obviously support the rip-off merchants. Whose side you are on is the great dividing line in politics. Sunak and his chums have clearly shown whose side they are on.
Teachers, civil servants and train drivers walk out in biggest strike in decade
Bravo Tanni
Paralympian wheelchair racing peer Tanni Grey-Thompson is showing once again she is a true champion. By speaking up for millions of disabled and physically challenged people over callous plans to shut nearly 1,000 train station ticket offices Tanni is giving them a voice.
We are not a civilised country if some of us are prevented by commercial motives from using basic services. Those services include vital ticket offices on the rail network.