In Precedented Times, pub and restaurant health and safety rules are nearly (but not quite) as detailed and complex as those we have to follow to sell you an ISA. When it comes to something potentially more deadly than food poisoning, they’ve been left to make it up as they go along. Two people I know well tell me that, where they work, there’s no mask or glove wearing, even in the kitchen. There was none in the local wine bar I passed on Saturday; it was heaving with not even a pretence of social distancing. There should be clear rules. ID on the way in, masks and gloves for all staff, visors and lots of cleaning in the kitchen, with council inspectors enforcing. Otherwise, it’s a disaster waiting to happen. I’d say.
“Record year for annuity sales driven by advisers”
I was asked this week whether annuities are now ‘a good investment’. They’ve been recommended very rarely in recent years, since ‘pension freedoms’ allowed pretty much unlimited drawdown on pension funds and anything left to be passed on to beneficiaries free of Inheritance Tax.