So here’s a classic glass half full/half empty scenario. Of course the economy must shrink. Many are doing nothing or very little and being paid, at best 80% of what they were; yet many are doing a lot more. Amazon and most of the supermarkets are desperate for drivers. Hundreds are, sadly, working 24/7 to build Nightingale hospitals; as are the techies keeping the internet going and inventing ever more online meeting apps. Every cloud and all that. The imponderable is what and who will be revivable and thrivable when and if it’s all over by Christmas. Not, I’d say, Eamonn Holmes.
“UK slips into recession as economy contracts 0.1% in December”
This week’s big economic and bad election news is that we are, or certainly have been, officially in a recession. You may not have thought you were, or you may have thought you have been for some time, as we and its effects are all different.