“Britons defy Boris Johnson by flocking to parks despite coronavirus threat”

Mar 23, 2020 | In the news

Plenty of idiots in the last few days have been pushing pensioners and nurses out of the way in the toilet roll aisle or holding drinking parties in the park. You can kind-of bet that they’re the ones  responsible for those whole-class detentions when they were at school. I can still name names, even fifty years on. Trouble is, in the big, grown-up world they’re going to cause a whole city or country detention. Which means we’ll all miss rather more than break time or school lunch. 

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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.