Paying your bills on time makes sense- unless you're Tesco

Back in the late medieval era, when I was senior partner of a busy general practice, we employed a new practice manager and one day she came to me saying:
 "There are some bills to pay. Shall I leave them until I get final demands?
I replied:
 "No, let's pay them now."
She seemed puzzled, one reason why she didn't last long with us. I like my bills to be paid promptly (don't you?  Doesn't everyone?) and the other side of that coin is to pay your own bills on time. A rule which doesn't appear to mean much to the senior managers at Tesco, who for years delayed paying for as long as possible, sometimes bringing their creditors to the verge of bankruptcy. Their tardiness, according to a report published yesterday, amounted to hundreds of millions of pounds, and was a deliberate policy. Unfortunately there is no way of punishing their immoral behaviour, so essentially they have got away with it, and a simple "sorry" will close out the story. My verdict: a disgrace.

A QUESTION OF NEUTRALITY

Apparently Israel's premier Netenyahu was up in arms yesterday over the UN's Secretary General slamming Israel's persisting in building settlements in the occupied territories on the West Bank.
 "The UN should remain  neutral!" he bleated. But for me the UN should NOT remain neutral when it sees an obvious injustice being perpetrated by a powerful nation over a weaker one. It didn't remain neutral, for instance, over the issue of apartheid in South Africa, after the dawn of the 1980s at least. Of course, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan did  adopt a neutral attitude, on the grounds of furthering trade, to their everlasting shame.
What if the UN was extant during WWII, and it condemned the holocaust. Would the Nazis have complained bitterly about its lack of neutrality then? Of course the UN didn't exist at the time, though the Catholic church did, and of course as we now know they knew what was going on, and remained tight lipped, to their everlasting shame.
What the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians has been likened to apartheid by no lesser figure than Desmond Tutu. There is no neutral position on apartheid, or the holocaust, or the subjugation of the Palestinian people. They're all morally wrong, and we should all speak out whenever we see a moral crime going on under our noses.