“Liam Fox and US treasury secretary pull out of ‘Davos in the Desert’ summit in Saudi Arabia over Jamal Khashoggi allegations”

Oct 23, 2018 | In the news

So with whom exactly will we be able to trade and still keep our heads held at least some small distance above our chests, when we Rejoin the Rest of the World? Saudi Arabia and Russia pretty openly bump-off any citizens who cause them any grief and China has kidnapped the head of Interpol, for goodness sake. And as lovely as the Kiwis may be, why do we want to bring lamb 12,000 miles when we can grow our own or get it from just over the channel? Beats me. Answers on a postcard, please.

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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.