“Heatwave temperatures to soar above 30 degrees as Britain heads for its hottest night”

Jul 23, 2019 | In the news

Tags: summer, UK, weather

Just a few days ago it was ‘Call this a summer!’ Now it’s ‘I can’t sleep in this heat and we need some rain for the garden’. Let’s face it, we Brits will never be happy. If we Brexit, we’ll blame everything, even queues on the M25, on the deal or no deal. If we remain (who knows?) we can at least still blame the EU for everything. For my part (you may call me a dreamer, but I’m not the only one), I’d go for sun, heat and a yellow lawn over rain anytime. 

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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.