“Union boss attacks Amber Rudd for criticising Home Office staff over Windrush debacle”

Apr 21, 2018 | In the news

The Windrush Affair has become a masterclass in blame-shifting. Theresa May went for the traditional ‘it was a previous government’ method, while Amber Rudd played the more dangerous game of blaming her staff. Dangerous because the pot can suddenly become rather leaky, emails and memos find their way out into the big wide world of fake news and we’re suddenly reminded that politicians are much more easily fire-able than civil servants.

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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.