I can just hear conversations amongst the older generations of my childhood: ‘Charity begins at home, doesn’t it? We shouldn’t be helping all these foreigners, we have enough problems of our own. It’s all taken by (insert names of various potentates) and the like anyway’. Sadly, there are many of similar bent who won’t be in the least bit worried about this. Many of the younger generation (which in this case includes me) will find it shockingly arrogant and penny-pinching. We’ve already cut the aid budget. Let’s hope there’s no such thing as karma.
“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.
