I am something of a cinephile and have been missing my regular date nights at the flicks. Will Covid really mean the death of cinema? Well, they said TV would kill it, just as the Kindle (kids etc.) was to be the death of the printed book. And they were wrong. However, the horseless carriage did make the horse a minority interest, just as Spotify has made vinyl the domain of the nerdy older bloke (guilty as charged). So the jury’s out. Answers on a postcard, please.
“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.
