“Saudi Crown Prince’s billboard welcome”

Mar 12, 2018 | In the news

Driving into London at the weekend I was surprised to be greeted by giant photos of the Saudi Crown Prince on several electronic billboards decorating the Westway. Apparently he’s ‘Bringing Change to Saudi Arabia’. No mention, of course of public crucifixions, beheadings or the indiscriminate bombing of the Yemen. I wonder how the Advertising Standards Agency would view other nations following suit?

‘Vladimir Putin. Reaching out from Russia.’ ’Bashar al-Assad. Reuniting Syria, one city at a time’. Hypocrites? Nous?

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“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.