“Fake news ‘crowding out’ real news, MPs say”

Jul 30, 2018 | In the news

Tags: fake news

I can’t work out why we need new rules and committees of enquiry about fake news on the internet when we’ve been happy for our tabloids to churn it out for years. Is it because old-style newspapers are only read by grown ups who can tell the difference? Do we all automatically believe everything we read on Facebook and Twitter, if we read them at all?  I doubt the majority of Trump and Brexit voters did; or do…

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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.