“Stronger Towns Fund: £1.6bn post-Brexit cash announced”

Mar 5, 2019 | In the news

A celebrated film critic famously says that ‘Jaws’ is not a film about a shark; though many would say that the shark has a pretty big role in it. Maybe they’re wrong as, apparently, the promise of a big spending after Brexit in leave-supporting towns is nothing to do with Brexit. Neither is Honda’s exit from the UK. And the rise in violence is nothing to do with policing cuts. In fact, I heard an ‘expert’ on the radio today say that to cut knife crime, we don’t need more policeman as metal-detecting radar could do the job! What? Maybe I’ll wake up and find it was all just a dream.

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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.