It’s only when you put on your bifocals and go beyond page 8 of your average broadsheet, or listen to the World Service, that you hear about other stuff that’s going on in our Wide World. 75% of Bangladesh blacked out as rich nations secure their oil and gas supplies at the expense of the poorer; civil war leaving thousands starving in Tigre; Saudi Arabia and Iran still fighting a proxy war in Yemen with cholera running rampant as a result; and Russian airstrikes still a regular feature of life in Syria. We bemoan the insularity of most Americans, yet our own focus rarely moves beyond the same half dozen stories; and Meghan, of course. And, hey, if you’re worried about our inflation rate hitting double digits, in Turkey it’s currently 83%! Their president has famously gone for growth, and continued to cut taxes and interest rates despite everything. So there’s an interesting precedent.
“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’?