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Daily Mail
9 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
As a hotel boss, I saw the chaos unions unleashed on Britain in the 1970s. Now Rayner's workers' rights Bill is set to drag us back to the age of socialism on steroids
Many people today will not remember the 1970s. Indeed, most of the leading figures in our Government are too young to do so. But I recall them only too well. As a senior executive at the hotel group TrustHouseForte in the second half of that decade, I had a ringside seat on events during a period when British business was plagued by industrial disputes.
The Guardian
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Letter: Johnny Tillotson obituary
While still at school in the early 1960s, I worked weekends and holidays at the Grill & Griddle at Newport Pagnell services on the M1. One day I served four Americans for lunch: they all ordered steaks. There were three handsome young men and an older, dark-haired one, all discussing recording contracts and appearance venues. As a pop fan I used to read NME, and recognised Johnny Tillotson and Del Shannon. When I asked the older man for an autograph, he laughed and said 'You don't want mine' – clearly he was an agent. He passed Trust House Forte napkins to the other three, Tillotson and Shannon providing them happily, and the third slightly grumpily. His signature revealed him to be Roy Orbison, and I have them all still.
