Pub Boss Decries ‘Faff,’ Invokes Buffett in Covid Broadside
- Wetherspoon chairman Martin cites warning against groupthink
- Pub owner attacks U.K. policy after first loss since 1984
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Britain’s most outspoken pub boss invoked the likes of Isaac Newton and Warren Buffett in a wide-ranging diatribe against the government’s Covid-19 policies, including new restrictions on U.K. watering holes.
JD Wetherspoon Plc Chairman Tim Martin cited a decades-old warning from the sage of Omaha to be wary of companies where employees blindly follow “the institutional imperative,” without questioning the course they’re on. In a 1990 letter to shareholders, Buffett compared this to Newton’s first law of motion.