Eddie the Eagle, Tim Henman, Susan Boyle…we Brits love an underdog, don’t we? We even voted the useless John Major in for a second term when we saw what a hard time he was getting from both Brexiteers and Neil Kinnock (Jeremy Corbyn’s younger, elder brother, kids). So it should be no surprise that the more the ghastly Rees-Mogg & Co. turn the screws, the more popular embattled Theresa becomes. Has there ever been a Christmas election? First time for everything, Mrs. May.
“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.
