It’s all about shopping this week – food shopping, where I’m bossily suggesting you think ‘Scotland first’ to support our fabulous Scottish food and drink sector. Its growth is vital to the continued prosperity of the nation, and particularly important for our rural economy. And while you’re thoughtfully choosing Scottish meat cheese and butter, don’t… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Oxfam
Fast fashion in context
For years, if asked (and admittedly, I wasn’t asked very often) the quote by which I tried to live my life was ‘Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes’. I came across it in EM Forster’s 1908 novel ‘A Room with a View’ when I was a student and it struck a chord. Skint and… Read more »
It’s been a bad week for Oxfam, but we’re in hub-cap heaven
It hasn’t been a great week for Oxfam. There was an almost audible intake of breath across the nation when the news broke last weekend that senior aid staff, working in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, had used prostitutes at a villa rented by Oxfam. We learned that once the allegations came… Read more »