“Climate change: Sacked climate chief ‘may sue government'”

Feb 4, 2020 | In the news

When everyone smoked like chimneys (kids etc.) the fag-makers were cancer deniers, much as many now deny climate-change. I predict oil companies and petrol cars will go the same way.  It took nearly 40 years from the first proof that it caused cancer for smoking bans become law. So in 40 years time only Clarkson die-hards, kids thinking they’re cool and those who can’t afford them will be driving non-electrics. And most of Russia, China and Africa, of course; where they still all smoke like chimneys.

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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.