“Zoe Ball earns respect with new BBC Radio 2 breakfast show”

Jan 14, 2019 | In the news

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Just as I’m Remain not Brexit, I’m Chris not Zoë and likely to become a Virgin next week. Whatever you think of them, however, what’s to admire is their hardwork and preparation. They may sound like they make it up as they go along, but both have done at least a couple of weeks of full shows at 6.30am and loads of work around the edges. They do earn their silly money; while most who moan and do jobs they think are more important usually do make it up as they go along. He said, glancing in the direction of Westminster…

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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.

“Apple versus the world”

Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.