With so many others closing, why not hairdressers? Because they haven’t been told to
I was talking to an acquaintance the other day – a person of senior years who fits into several of …
Category Archives: Business
B&M is donating £1million to UK food banks to fight coronavirus-related supply gap
This is wonderful news and B&M has set an excellent example for other businesses to follow. I hope they will. …
Coronavirus: How can Scottish hotel say it’s following government advice by sacking staff?
Is this the tip of a vicious coronavirus iceberg? Owners of the Coylumbridge hotel, near Aviemore in Scotland, have sacked 12 …
Johnson ADVISES on coronavirus containment – at what cost to businesses and people?
Boris Johnson has suggested that people might be well-advised to avoid their place of work, their local pub, and travel …
Firms that falsified thousands of benefit assessments set to get contracts to falsify thousands more
Can anyone think of a single rational explanation for the plan to renew the contracts for Atos and Capita to …
Universal Credit isn’t just harming people – it is damaging the entire UK economy
Oldham was named as the most deprived town in England in 2016. That was three years after the town volunteered …
Mothercare closes after nearly 60 years, with thousands of job losses
Another iconic British shopping brand has ended, 59 years after it was founded. All Mothercare shops in the UK will …
Is Greggs £300 staff bonus actually a donation to the Tory government?
On the face of it, this looked like a pleasant display of solidarity with hard-working staff – but it seems …
140,000 retail jobs lost in worst year for quarter of a century. That’s Tory government for you
So much for the party of business. Guess what I’m going to say? That’s right: 14 million Tories voted to …
Letdown on rail accessibility for disabled people shows the Tories’ are still siding with big business
The Conservatives’ recent election manifesto stated that the UK didn’t need to renationalise the rail network; it just needed to …