“UK warned it is unprepared for climate chaos”

Jun 17, 2021 | In the news

Let’s face it, governments are always unprepared, for pandemics, wars, financial crashes, however blindingly obvious it is that they’re coming. It’s in their nature (maybe all of our natures) to hope for the best, that it will be the next guy’s problem; then to react too late, usually at great cost. Thing is, it’s hard to justify spending loads on something that hasn’t gone wrong yet. Otherwise they’d not only be trying to stop climate change, but be wasting £ms on free health checks to try to stop us getting ill. Ridiculous idea.

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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.