We’re now appreciating the value of all the local stuff we’ve lost over the years, infrastructure that was needed when people couldn’t or wouldn’t travel. Like now. Cottage hospitals, village shops, village bobbies, baker’s ovens and neighbours whose names you know. There are still, however, many local trust funds, set up long ago ‘to relieve the poor of the village’. The trustees spend a lot of time these days looking for poor to relieve. Now’s the time, I’d say, for them to think laterally and go into action; before many are beyond relief.
“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’?