THE WEEK IN RETAIL
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RETAILERS FEEDING CHILDREN: FOOD FOR THOUGHT As if the local retailing sector wasn’t doing enough already to help hold this fractured country together, we see them now having to step in and take responsibility for feeding vulnerable children. It has been simply humbling to follow on Twitter as retailers like Raaj Chandarana, Avtar Sidhu and Susan Connolly work into the wee hours of the morning on a daily basis to help ensure that needy children in their local area get something to eat in half term. Inspiring, inspirational and astonishing – but what’s even more astonishing is why it has come to this in the first place. It’s hard to understand why anyone would vote against giving food to hungry children, regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum. And it’s a very sad day when local retailers – and
Premiership footballers like Marcus Rashford – have to step into the vacuum where the Government is meant to be. I was tempted to go off on a rant about the state of the world but then someone sent me this short clip by the inimitable Jonathan Pie – and nobody does rants quite like Pie.
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