“Watchdog condemns Grayling’s ‘costly’ probation changes”

Mar 4, 2019 | In the news

You can’t assume that private enterprise is always better than state run. Is ITV always better than the BBC, or Heart than Radio 1 (parents etc)? Yes, sometimes, if Strictly’s on, but the ads get annoying and there are far too many Fat-People-With-Tatts-Dating-type programmes. The only advantage, if you’re trying to privatise probation, prisons and schools, is to save a bit of money for a while and make the public expenditure figures look better. Before the whole thing crashes down in a pile of human misery. 

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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.