Strange to think that for hundreds of years, right up until the first half of the last century, being overweight/fat/obese was a sign of prosperity. It was the downtrodden, hungry masses who were thin and, ironically, still unhealthy. Hollywood and the 60s made thin the new fat and now fattening food is cheaper, it’s the rich who can afford to exercise and to paraphrase Pulp, the ‘Common People’ ‘eat and drink and s—-w, because there’s nothing else to do’. Making sugary, fatty foods more expensive will work if the healthy stuff gets cheaper. Which it won’t. We’ll end up instead with lots of hungry, unhealthy kids on our national hands and conscience. And £50 for repairing bikes? We’ll end up with lots of newly-fixed-up bikes on Ebay.
“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’?
