“Coronavirus: Vaccinate more people with one dose, urges Tony Blair”

Feb 23, 2021 | In the news

If he’d ignored both George W. and Gordon, we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq, would have regulated the banks and Tony would (perhaps) be a hero. Because he did get a lot of things right. Not least his assertion, before Christmas, that we change the system and vaccinate everyone once. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere else, but shortly thereafter someone, somewhere in Number 10 came to the same conclusion. Blair the puppet-master? We could do, and have done, worse…

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

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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.