“Covid measures will be seen as ‘monument of collective hysteria and folly’ says ex-judge”

Dec 7, 2020 | In the news

I googled this chap as I heard him on the radio the other day. Has he not seen what’s happened and is happening in Brazil and the US? We’re already high up the Covid death hit parade and would undoubtedly be higher without the government’s ‘cavalier disregard for the limits of their powers’. Norway, NZ and Australia, to pick 3 at random from the charts, are hardly dictatorships but have fared pretty well though it all, with, quite probably, an equally cavalier disregard. I despair.

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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.