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1 Aug, 6 tweets, 2 min read
My column is on how working from home is becoming political, and the growing gap between what workers and bosses want. But I also expose (yet another) issue with govt guidance thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…
On the 'Step 4' unlocking guidance, the govt say 'we are no longer instructing you to work from home (but please don't come back quickly)' Image
But on the main coronavirus 'work and financial support' page, it still says 'everyone should work from home' Image
Meanwhile, the briefing from govt is that now the work from home guidance has been lifted, whether or not you work from home is entirely a matter for employers (and employees) to decide.
In other words, with three different versions of the guidance out there, is it any wonder businesses are confused?
Have a read here thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…

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30 Jul
Tweeting the answers to my Olympic quiz from here - spoilers beyond this point obvs.
1) What is the Olympic motto? (Either in Latin or English). Bonus point: which word was added to it this year? FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER - CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS. (BONUS: TOGETHER/COMMUNITER)

2) How many gold medals did Steve Redgrave win in consecutive Games? FIVE (1984-2000)
3) What are the colours of the Olympic rings? (Bonus point: why?) BLUE, BLACK, RED, YELLOW, GREEN - COVERS AT LEAST ONE COLOURS IN THE FLAGS OF THE ORIGINAL COMPETING NATIONS

4) The rowing lake for the London 2012 Olympics is owned by which school? ETON
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30 Jul
For all Olympics fans, have just set this as the @CPSThinkTank weekly quiz, and thought others might be interested in trying it. 20 fiendish Olympic questions, plus tiebreaker... answers in separate thread which I'll link to at the end.
1) What is the Olympic motto? (Either in Latin or English). Bonus point: which word was added to it this year?
2) How many gold medals did Steve Redgrave win in consecutive Games?
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25 Jul
Here's my column today. Annoyingly, I made a mistake in it. It's worth explaining why, because it shows how messed up policy on self-isolation really is. thetimes.co.uk/article/all-th…
For the last few days, I and others have been *less than polite* about the exemption procedure, which sees firms having to send individual staff names in to govt, and the justification for exempting them, then wait for three different govt depts to discuss and send a letter back.
As we've pointed out, this seems a cumbersome, bureaucratic, economy-destroying, Whitehall-knows-best approach.
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24 Jul
There's a huge focus in the US now on "breakthrough infections" - it's not a phrase I've seen much in the UK but it does a lot to explain what's happening here, and one we may start to become much more familiar with. (1/?)
Put simply, a "breakthrough" infection is one which breaks through the resistance to infection conferred by vaccination. It's what happened to @sajidjavid - double-jabbed, but still got the 'rona.
Remember: the original aim was for vaccines to reduce/eliminate the risk of death/serious illness. The fact that they ended up making the vaccinated less infectious was a very welcome bonus.
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22 Jul
Oh God. This is pretty much a planned economy.
.@julianHjessop is right. I've never read anything less likely to work smoothly, or less attuned to how businesses/the real world actually operates.
And as @jonathansimons points out, where are the civil servants to do this analysis and write these letters going to come from? Or does it get handed to Serco etc?
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22 Jul
Your regular reminder that a 3% NHS pay rise (or a 1%, or whatever) is a lot more than 3%. Much more accurate to say ‘at least 3%, and in many cases far more’ thetimes.co.uk/article/welcom…
As @CPSThinkTank has shown, the 1% ‘pay freeze’ between 2012 and 2017 actually saw pay rise by 2.7% a year - though unevenly distributed.
In 2018, the ‘three-year deal worth 6.5%’ actually meant between 6.5% and 29%. Etc etc
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