When you go to a restaurant or buy products at the supermarket, you’re likely to be given lots of information about where your food comes from and what it contains. But what about the people who actually made it? Andrew Crane says despite businesses paying more attention to supply chains, they are still falling short in their duty to root out modern slavery. Meanwhile, Daniel Silverstone has been looking at trafficked labour and in particular how Vietnamese workers are being used as part of the lucrative business of producing cannabis in the UK.

Hurricane Irma, at its strongest a category 5 hurricane, has devastated parts of the Caribbean and Florida. It is one of the worst storms the region has ever seen. Sally Brown argues hurricanes may certainly get more severe in future. She makes the case for an entirely new category to describe them. Meanwhile, we look at the pressure the storm has put on relations between the UK and the British Overseas Territories that were hit.

Following the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015, the French government announced a state of emergency, dramatically extending state powers to curtail civil liberties in the interest of national security. They include the ability to raid homes without warrants and to clamp down on gatherings. Nearly two years later, writes Fraser McQueen, President Emmanuel Macron wants to make some of these draconian rules permanent.

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