Guru

Guru does all his best musing on the toilet. In fact Guru was sure he read a survey that found Brits come up with their best ideas while, er, dropping the kids off.

So while sitting on the lav this morning and thumbing through his copy of the Daily Telegraph, Guru came across London mayor Boris Johnson's proposals for firms to open their toilets to the public.

BoJo wants councils across the capital to sign up to the Community Toilet Scheme where businesses are given grants to open their facilities to the public to help tackle a shortage of public bogs. Apparently, it's worked in Richmond. 

Guru is not sure many HR directors would go for this plan. It might very well work in the quaint and well-to-do streets of south-west London, with the affluent yummy mummys pushing their offsping in the latest designer buggy.

But imagine the mess in some of the shops and restaurants in some of the less pleasant London boroughs. Guru thinks while you might not get an elephant demanding to use your karzi, it could get nasty if someone is really desperate to spend a penny (or worse).