They have moved into occupations where they can still bully people

A visit to BQW in the morning. One of the last meetings at their London headquarters. They have lots of ancient artwork they want the agency to store as there isn’t room for it in the new offices (I tried a number of times to tell them to throw it all in the skip, but they wouldn’t listen).

Rather than go straight back to the office I stopped for a cup of coffee at one of the major chains. I took my Café Americano to a table by the window. All the window tables were on a raised platform, about two inches above the normal floor level.

Incredibly the table had a note stuck onto it saying: Please TAKE CARE when stepping off this RAISED AREA of floor. There is a raised edge.

Note the use of capital letters, which in this internet age means you are being shouted at.

How much longer is this Health & Safety nonsense going to go on? As bullying has become socially unacceptable, the bullies have not given up and gone away. They have moved into occupations where they can still bully people but under the cover of legitimate Health & Safety.

Today is Friday. If you watch the opening credits of Newsnight you will see presenter Kirsty Wark standing dangerously close to the edge of a RAISED AREA of floor (sometimes one foot is even half over the edge). How long before the Health & Safety busybodies make her stand well back, behind a yellow line, with continuous announcements telling her to “mind the gap”?