“Gordon Brown says energy firms unable to offer lower bills should be temporarily re-nationalised”

Aug 23, 2022 | In the news

OK, he left office with the reputation as the man who broke the government bank, but he actually put together the strategy which saved the rest of the banks. And as someone who lived through the strike-a-day ’70s, I do think the unions are talking, not necessarily more economic sense, but certainly with the moral high ground. Can it be right that energy and many other companies are raking in big profits, paying out exec bonuses and dividends, and not keeping prices down or properly paying their workforces? And as for Thames Water (personal bugbear) and the other big utilities…so, Gordon maybe has a point. He’s whistling in the wind, however, as I don’t think it will ever be on the Truss agenda.

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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.