I’ve been trying to buy a new jacket this week. Hunted around M&S, then was told ‘we don’t sell jackets any more, only trousers’. Really? By coincidence, a local Debenhams is opposite. Plenty of cheap suits, but no-one all over me like them to ask. Today I ventured into the ’Formal Menswear’ department in House of Fraser’s dingy basement and lost the will. So guess what? I’m ordering one online. No hope for any of them. I’d say.
“Arcadia collapse sees 10,000 pensions head to PPF”
“So will Arcadia’s employees lose their pensions?”, asked the R4 interviewer. “No, no, they’ll get at least 90% of their entitlement paid by the Pension Protection Fund” said the Philip Green apologist (“he just didn’t have the skills to be a retailer”). And how is...