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    This 'living wage' thing is not a concept of great beauty. While a minimum wage can be expressed as £x per hour, surely a 'living wage' ought to be £x per week. Working 60 hours a week at the minimum wage produces much more income than 35 hours at the 'living wage'. Working 60 hours a week is no hardship, I don't know a small business owner who does less than that. Forcing employers to pay more than the economic value of their employees' labour just costs jobs.

    Surely the way round this and the zero-hours controversy is to express the living wage as a weekly sum (£240, perhaps) and force zero-hours employers to either pay it or free their employees to work for more than one employer.

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