“EastEnders set rebuild goes £27m over budget”

Dec 14, 2018 | In the news

So can you trust anyone even vaguely connected with government to bring a building project in on budget? In the same week we hear that the reconstruction of the Queen Vic is costing more than some footballers earn in a year, comes the news that ‘Crossrail is set to get another £1 billion bailout as its start date is pushed back even further’. I know that most Tories think the BBC are raving lefties but that should surely be in their favour. The Chinese seem to get all sorts of things built on time and on budget. Many of them in Central London.

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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.