There are large numbers of Daily Mail/Express readers and Loud Blokes in the Gym Locker Room who think that, come 11.01pm on 29th March we can ‘close the borders and sort out those migrants’. I would point out however, that: 1) the French are unlikely to become more cooperative post-Brexit, and 2) the fact that we’re not in the EU won’t stop them wanting to come.
Makes you wonder what on earth the 2nd Referendum campaign will be like. And why anyone would give John Redwood a knighthood.
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.
Here’s a future problem that will doubtless be kicked down the road until it becomes a crisis. There’s a whole generation who may never be able to afford to buy their own homes.
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.