HOW GREEN IS THE TIMES?

This Saturday an article in the Times by Anna Shepard starts off with a very good question - How Green is my bag? It then fails completely to give an answer. It talks about cottton bags made by rich people like a certain member of the Bush family, on sale for £35 at Harrods, and the Anya Hindmarch bag - which Anna might know, if she read her own paper, was a disaster made in Chinese sweatshops. Click here for a link.

If she read up on her subject she just might have mentioned hemp - or even jute and ramie, but the world is full of these journalists and only an idiot believes that they know about everything they sound off about in the papers. Especially if that paper is the Times, and happens to be printed on wood pulp paper. It is not that hard to produce hemp paper, individuals do it all the time and the Ecologist used such paper in one of their issues.

Slowly, people are waking up to the fact that cotton is an environmentally destructive plant and that the press, including some of the 'eco-mags' are not telling us the truth. Many in the 'green' circles are just not aware of this at all - including Al Gore and George Monbiot. The former made a fool of himself in London as he barged in and kicked invited guests off the guests list and barred the press from asking questions - especially inconvenient ones; he got paid $100,000 for this charade, and anyone stupid enough to hire him deserves to lose a little money. For one thing, the sight of another green hypocrite dressed up in cotton, after having flown thousands of miles to get his cheque, is enough to start a riot; which almost occured after Monbiot's speech at the US Embassy on 8 December, as a group called We Are Change tried to get him to talk facts about things. I left before they started on him, but not without waving a sign about hemp and showing my hemp bag, the one that says: "Real Eco Bags are made from Hemp". It got knowing looks from a lot of people. Much as I wanted to wear it to the Gore event, they were not letting many people in and probably would have had me tasered, just like the student in Florida who asked an inconvenient question of John Kerry. Brave New World indeed. More like 1984.

KATE MOSS' SLAVES FUND HER COKE HABIT

The Times on Sunday yesterday carried a picture of supermodel Kate on the cover, and along with her Philip Green. Both are disgusting human beings, their life styles funded by people who are basically slaves. Women get shipped to Mauritius to work in sub-human conditions, forced to do at least 70 hours per week. If they protest, armed thugs are set upon them. And there is much to protest about, such as the lack of sleep, the lack of food, and the lack of sanitary facilities. Oh, and let's not forget the lack of pay. These people are lied to so that they think they are making a good wage, but it is really only Kate and Philip who get good money. How much? $6.66m a day. Yeah, with that kind of money one might just install some decent dormitories.

But no, Kate and Philip are scum, and so is much the fashion world. The cotton trade has a long history of wrongdoing, it seems as if anyone connected to this crop is some kind greedy monster. At one point its managers chopped people's arms off for competing, and let's not forget the American South where people were tortured, raped and killed by the likes of Kate and Philip.

The story, by Claire Newell and Robert Winnett, deserves an award for investigative journalism. They had to put up with 'Sir' Philip, who threatened them with bodily harm. And getting into the slave plantations in third world countries is no easy task. Armed militias are there to keep reporters and human rights activits out, whilst 'Sir' Philip sails around the world on his yacht.

What can we do? Poster Topshop and other places that sell the Philips' line or clothes modeled by Moss. Stop wearing cotton as much as you can. Below are phone #s for Topshop London locations.

020 8760 0314

020 8680 8835

020 8681 5582