China builds two hospitals in just over a week

Feb 12, 2020 | In the news

If they can build a hospital in a week, why is it taking 30 years to finish HS2?  In China, of course they have a lot more people with a lot less choice; but what, I hear you say, about all those Victorian railways? Thing is, Isambard Kingdom didn’t drag the kids from Fagin’s gangs off the streets to dig tunnels. It was immigrant labourers, the Irish Navvies, who did all the work; and were much  discriminated against at the time. Plus ça change.

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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.