Pub landlords and bar owners in Britain may be liable under new laws for “sexual discrimination” if their barmaids are offended by the flirtatious banter of their customers.

Who thinks up such nonsense?

It is not the barmaids.

Anyone in the hospitality industry should know and accept that their role is to make their customers feel comfortable and relaxed. To seek work there and then complain when one gets what one seeks would be hypocritical.

Barmaids understand this. So, at another level, do female entrepreneurs. They know that they have chosen to work in a rough, competitive environment. Most are eager to prove they can handle it as well, or better, than men, and would not have it any other way.

Women in the private sector are – on the whole – a sensible, well-adjusted bunch. They struggled for decades for equal access to the workplace, knowing full well what they would find there.

These stupid laws do not come from them, but from politicians and bureaucrats – male and female – who have never had a proper job, or run a business, in their lives.