“US election 2020 polls: Who is ahead – Trump or Biden?”

Aug 26, 2020 | In the news

One of my predictions last year about which I hoped and prayed I’d be wrong, was that we’d be stuck with both Boris and Trump until 2024. When speaking to an old uni-friend, now both US resident and citizen, last night, I said that I hadn’t spoken to any American who either liked Trump or wanted him as president. He said that, despite Covid, a) Trump’s core supporters have probably never spoken to a foreigner and b) there are enough who dislike him but would never vote ‘Blue’ (which would, confusingly be ‘Red’ over here) to see him in. Still. Might be good for the stock market. He said, desperately clutching a straw.

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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.