Rather interesting since if the discrimination involved race - the media would be all over it as they believe that private businesses do not have the right to discriminate along racial lines no matter what rights the business might have in selecting clients. To the others: I realize that Britain does not have a First Amendment per se but one would think that as a supposed free society that it purports to be that they would have a similar guarantee or protection.
Incidentally, I believe in the right of private persons and organizations to discriminate on the basis of race. Kinda like how the NAACP, The United Negros College Fund, La Raza, etc. no doubt do. Said right derives from freedom of association, which most relates to the right to peaceably assemble as far as constitutionally explicit rights are concerned.
Ultimately it is an inevitable outcome of private property rights. The civil rights act, insofar as it diminished private property rights and freedom of association, was shameful.