I (really) hate to say it, but he is right in one (and only one) respect. China and others are by far the biggest polluters, with thousands of factories which make thousands of things for us belching out thousands of m3 of harmful stuff. But if you said to the traffic cop who’s pulled you up for doing 90 that the bloke in front was doing 100, it won’t help either you or road safety in general. Unless you’re both the Chief Constable and a mason. Or the President.
“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.
