“Covid-19: English lockdown may last beyond 2 Dec, says Gove”

Nov 2, 2020 | In the news

My few nights away from a comparatively well-behaved Cotswolds shows why we’re into another lockdown and why it’s unlikely be enough. Maskless blokes in trackies and baseball hats, daring anyone to confront them in motorway service stations. Crowds of students and drunken locals thronging police-free streets on Halloween Saturday. The poshest of local restaurants booked to last-chance capacity within an hour of the Boris pronouncement. The Common Sense of the Great British People. 

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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.