“Climate Change: Thousands at Time is Now march”

Jun 26, 2019 | In the news

I remember the anti-Vietnam war protests when I was growing up and the many who branded the protesters nutters/troublemakers/hippies. The Civil Rights movement was at its height around the same time, then came anti-apartheid and of course before that, Ban the Bomb and Votes for Women. With the gift of hindsight, would you say any were wrong? No more than you’d now ask for an ashtray and light up in a restaurant or on a plane, I’d say.

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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.