If you borrow £500 and miss a payment, men in black t-shirts will break down the door and cart off your TV and stereo. If you borrow a few £billion, it’s the bankers who lose their tellies. You, of course, would never personally owe any money. Even your telly is probably owned by your gardener’s sister-in-law in the Cayman Islands. And, just to be clear, David Cameron did nothing wrong, it was all just friendly banter by text with Rishi and over a drink with Matt Hancock. In the words of Bruce Hornsby (kids etc), that’s just the way it is.
“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.
