You can’t keep a good (or bad) company down. The fag-makers looked doomed when pubs banned smokers and we all started giving up. They soon had a new lease of life, so to speak, from zillions of dedicated smokers in Russia and China. And now, you have to say very cleverly, they’re jumping on, or gently lying down and chilling in, the cannabis bandwagon. Tobacco companies have traditionally been excluded, of course, from ethical funds; which could be a future dilemna for a certain demographic of ley-line-dwelling investor…
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?