“Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s strongman, resigns”

Mar 23, 2019 | In the news

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Many have said this week that we need a ’strong leader’. Many others (often the same many) say that, once we’ve voted, that’s it, no point in having more votes. So, guys, why not move to Kazakhstan? They’ve had the same leader for thirty years. He’s apparently been both strong and clear in his view that voting more than once is a waste of time. Alas, his country is not yet an EU member; but I’m sure they’ll be a shoo-in for Eurovision.

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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.

“Apple versus the world”

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.