Anyone of a certain age will remember taking empty light ale bottles back to the off licence, or handing last week’s lemonade bottles back to the Corona man. Kids etc. Perhaps this return to the Golden Age of Recycling is a sign of what we’ll be able to achieve for the environment without those busy-bodies in Brussels. I suspect, however, that the paperwork and bureaucracy that the ‘DRS for England and Wales’ will generate will make us long for the Golden Age of the European Commission.
“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.
