I bet if you asked most members of the cabinet what we can and can’t do at the moment, they’d be as confused as most of us. When in doubt, they fall back on the old chestnut of ‘common sense’ which, according to my wife, only women have anyway, and not all of them. Still more confusing is that we are allowing rugby scrums to buy, not bread or even toilet rolls but trainers at the Nike shop and designer swimwear in Bicester Village. And around 200 a day are still dying here. In New Zealand they’ve two new cases (both Brits, of course), not deaths, and have called in the army! So what’s the difference? Ah. They have a woman in charge. With common sense.
“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.
