When the smoking ban came in, I remember every pub and restaurant proclaiming that it would put them out of business; and many, including many an MP crying personal freedom and choice. You’d feel differently if dying, or watching a loved one dying, of a smoking-related disease. Hard now to imagine eating or drinking in a fug of smoke, as it will be, I predict, to think of being close enough to breath in a fellow diner, drinker or festival-goer’s Covid breath in years to come. Much as the expression irks, it is now, and will be for the foreseeable, the new normal.
“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’?