Italy’s ‘populist’ government is in the fortunate position of Cameron in 2010 and Blair in 1997, that they can blame anything and everything on everyone else. The dreadful bridge collapse is the fault of Italy’s rich elite, the bankers, greedy corporates, the EU…
It’s called a honeymoon period. It never lasts but plenty of damage can be done while it does.
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.
Here’s a future problem that will doubtless be kicked down the road until it becomes a crisis. There’s a whole generation who may never be able to afford to buy their own homes.
Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.