Hanging by a thread: Bangladesh’s garment wor...

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the wonders of the natural world. In 1875 in the western Pacific, the crew of HMS Challenger discovered the Mariana Trench which turned out to be deeper than Everest is high, by two kilometres. Trenches like Mariana form when one tectonic pl ...  Show more

Late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe died in 2019, but in the years before and since his death, his three children with his former wife, Grace, consistenly made headlines for all the wrong reasons. In April 2026 Bellarmine Mugabe pled guilty to a firearms offence in South Afri ...  Show more

Les grandes marques occidentales de la mode à bas coût, vont-elles mettre la main au portefeuille pour couvrir la hausse des salaires décidée au Bangladesh ? C’est ce que réclament les patrons de l’industrie textile locale, après avoir accepté une augmentation de 60% du salaire m ...  Show more

Labour rights activist Kalpona Akter and chief sustainability correspondent Sarah Kent reflect on where the industry stands a decade after the deadly factory collapse. 

Background:

Ten years ago this week an eight-storey facto ...

Fashion has routinely failed the millions of people who make its clothes. What should the industry do to create systemic change?

Over the past year, the pandemic has laid bare — and worsened — the stark inequality, financial insecurity and poor wo ...

Bangladesh has a troubled past, but it has been in a great position to grow dramatically in much the same way that its neighbour China has done in the recent past. Bangladesh is still a highly labour intensive market which makes it a great place to get T-shirts made, but a number ...  Show more