“Trump Threatens More China Tariffs, and Beijing Prepares to Retaliate”

May 11, 2019 | In the news

If you have a row with difficult partner and don’t wish to endure weeks of frosty silence and reprisals, rash moves (cancelling credit cards and dinner dates, or simply answering back) are not advisable. Or so I’ve heard, from friends with difficult partners. Trump’s tariffs will not end well for anyone. China is a communist dictatorship which now owns a fair chunk of Africa and its mineral rights and makes lot’s of stuff for lot’s of companies. I predict Mr T will be the one buying flowers and saying he didn’t mean it, darling.

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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.