“Advice trade body calls for reform of UK lifeboat scheme”

Dec 5, 2020 | In the news

OK, here’s someone talking complete sense. Time and again, punters (sic) are duped into unregulated investments by crooks somehow getting away with posing as or having connections with legit advisers, and the legit advisers have to shell out compensation, as the crooks fold their companies and disappear. All due to the ‘inadequacy of supervision and regulation carried out by the watchdog’. But I guess the current regime has only been around for 20 years. They can’t get it right overnight. They’re not producing vaccines, for goodness sake!

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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.

“Apple versus the world”

Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.