“Children are hauled away in HANDCUFFS as they bring roads to a standstill during a nationwide day of ‘strikes’ against climate change”

Feb 17, 2019 | In the news

So, hope at last that the next generation hopes to do a better job of both saving the climate and running the country? Or proof that we’ve been going to the dogs ever since the caning was outlawed? You pays your money, or buys your paper, and takes your choice. Daily Mail: ‘The Prime Minister slammed them for wasting lesson time’. Guardian: “A testament to the passion and awareness among young people that we need to fight for a future that simply doesn’t exist because we’ve been betrayed by the inaction of those in positions of power.” My glass is half-full.

Read more here

“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.