Haven’t we come a long way? It’s surely not so long ago, in the days when a mink coat and 20 Dunhill (kids etc.) were the mark of a real lady, that you’d have been in trouble for trying to pass off fake fur as the real thing. Now it’s real fur that’s masquerading as fake and soon we’ll have to disguise fillet steak as quorn, coal fires as nuclear reactors and soft Brexits as a hard. That’s progress for you.
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.