The head of one of the largest care home groups was quite rightly railing against the government’s disgraceful treatment of the sector in the early days of the pandemic, when they were largely ignored, told there wasn’t a big problem and denied PPE. Citing Boris’s remark that the fault lay with the care homes for not following the rules, he quoted ’1984’: ’Those who control the past, control the future. Those who control the present, control the past’. Of course, 1984 was always a political satire rather than science fiction. And more relevant today, in our world of fake news, Huawei and, as detailed above, attempts to rewrite even recent history, then ever.
“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’?