“Birmingham Prison: Government takes over from G4S”

Sep 1, 2018 | In the news

I checked who introduced private prisons. No surprise, the Tory Kens, Baker in 1992 and Clark a few years later. Shamefully though, still more were built by Labour after a manifesto U-turn in 1998. The shambles they’ve become may please the ’throw away the key’ brigade, more of whom have emerged from under the stones lifted by UKIP and Brexit. But really. If we still had capital punishment, would BUPA be arranging the injections? In a civilised society, they should be state-funded. End of. 

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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.