“NCA investigates how owner afforded £80m London homes”

May 29, 2019 | In the news

Where’s that horse running off to so quickly? Quick, we’d better close the stable door! For years, London property has been a home, wash, spin and tumble dry for dodgy money from many a dodgy place around the world. The buyer’s usually someone acting for someone, the actual owner an offshore company ‘for tax purposes’. Good luck to those trying to find the source of the funds, let alone anyone to prosecute. The positive is that these are foreigners bringing money into the country, not taking our jobs and unlikely to claim benefits nor be a burden on the NHS. The Britain of tomorrow.

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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.