Many on the righter side of right bemoan our ‘soft’ stance on those immigrants who come over here and take the cleaning/hospital portering/fruit picking/car washing jobs that should rightfully be ours. I’m sure both they and Donald Trump will find much to admire in the stance taken by our close, arms-buying allies in Saudi. Yes, you read that headline correctly: 1.35m rounded up in the last month alone. Hope you’re as open-mouthed as I was. If so, join Amnesty International. It’s about all we can do.
“The working-from-home illusion fades”
Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.
