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No fashion on a dead planet
On the streets of London last week thousands of the worldwide climate change protesters shared the pavement with visitors to London Fashion Week. PETER FROST sees some connections
NOW OR NEVER: Protesters from Extinction Rebellion demonstrate outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, last week, ahead of the Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2020 London Fashion Week catwalk show
With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Tens of thousands of students left their classrooms and took to the streets against conscription and rising military spending. NICK WRIGHT reports from Berlin
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
A YOUNG and stylish woman friend of mine, and incidentally a fan of my weekly Ramblings, was telling me about what she is doing personally to reduce the effect of climate change. She has adopted a fully vegan diet and doesn’t buy any new clothes at all except for knickers.
She buys all her clothes from Charity shops like Oxfam: “Oxfam are particularly good and also have a website where you can buy quite stylish items by mail order.”
She explained why charity shop purchases are so much part of her political thinking: “The fashion industry is a disaster. Fast fashion focuses on speed and low costs in order to deliver frequent new collections inspired by catwalk looks or celebrity styles.
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