If you’ve ever run a retail or catering business, you know that footfall is vital. A busy shop gets busier, a restaurant or cafe with empty tables is likely to stay empty. Is it any wonder that Burford’s business owners are incensed that visitor numbers might be restricted, because they upset some obviously non-business-owning presumably-retired residents? A better plan would be to move those who are upset to empty parts of the Cotswolds rather than moving the tourists. Maybe Mr Corbyn could make compulsory relocation part of his first Soviet-style Five Year Plan.
“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.
