Virgin no longer offering the Mail

Here is the direct and specific legislation that I mentioned directly before that you ignored directly from this legislation:

So then it should also be legal to stop hiring people it doesn't want to, such as for example if it hates minorities under your logic.

Far from ignoring it, I linked you to it and quoted a part of it to explain how 'religion or belief' does not include political belief.

Political beliefs are not a protected characteristic, not that it has anything to do with what Virgin have chosen to do.

Employment and offering a product for sale are two different things.

Political beliefs do fall under philosophical beliefs btw:

First, tell me which part of the act (from 3 to 7) you think relates to the supply of newspapers.

All of it, especially the part which directly explains that companies cannot discriminate

Against employees, yes. Pieces of paper with ink on them do not have the same rights as a living breathing human, so employment law is not exactly relevant.

All of it, especially the part which directly explains that companies cannot discriminate

The activities they are undertaking have to fall under one of parts 3 to 7 in order for the characteristics to be protected. Which of those parts do you think is relevant here?

Is the supply of newspapers a service? No.

Is it a public duty? No.

Is it the provision of premises? No.

Is it employment? No.

Is it education? No.

Is it all about membership of an association? No

The act therefore does not apply.

the Daily was employed and contracted to write papers for Virgin

I'll just stop responding to you because the only way that I can explain this is that you are a troll or that you aren't very intelligent.

You are ignoring the people who develop that paper and ink for a living. As I explained before several times, I think it has strong application here as the Daily was employed and contracted to write papers for Virgin, so even though they are seperate companies, they are employed partly by Virgin

That's...not how shops or employment law work.

I don't employ workers somewhere in East Asia because I bought a Samsung phone.

Explain it then, everyone is making statements in this thread without any explanations behind them. And as in my previous post, political beliefs fall under philosophical beliefs and as a result are protected.

I think it ought to apply that way so that companies companies cannot discriminate which services and products they don't use based on the people that create them and it does very much apply to discrimination laws as a result

I think it ought to apply that way so that companies companies cannot discriminate which services and products they don't use based on the people that create them and it does very much apply to discrimination laws as a result