THE POSITIVE PROFESSOR
SOCIAL media’s voice of calm Karol Sikora has been signed up by the Daily Express. Readers can now enjoy his soothing advice in these troubled times that have won him hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. If you need reassuring everything’s going to be all right read Professor Positivity.
EARLIER this week I was at my favourite spot in London for lunch, Gino’s in Marylebone. A little cafe just on the corner as you come out of the station – best sandwiches in London.
The place was deserted. I was the only one in there. They’ve had to lay off staff and the owner is seriously worried for their future.
The big multinationals will be fine. It’s small local businesses like Gino’s that will suffer and many have already closed.
It’s why I’m such a big supporter of buying local food. Why wouldn’t you? It tastes great, it’s good for the environment, and in these difficult times the local economy needs all the help it can get.
The Daily Express has done a great job raising this and encouraging people to support local producers. I’ve been supporting a campaign which was covered in this paper encouraging the public sector to buy British.
To me it seems madness that schools, hospitals and many other institutions aren’t supporting local economies.
I signed the open letter to Boris Johnson from Love British Food –
I hope you go to their website and do the same.
Not long ago our favourite local bakery went bust. It had been there for years but it just wasn’t viable for it to run any more. If the local public sector had supported such small businesses, I wonder if things would have been different.
People were genuinely scared earlier this year that food supply chains would collapse ( panic buying toilet rolls). It was our brilliant producers and farmers who helped keep us all fed.
It would be a wonderful gesture from the Government, and make perfect sense, if it decided to properly support them by encouraging the public sector to buy British.