Man who got infected in the office and saw his boss and colleagues get infected in the office says there’s little evidence people get infected in the office.
Matt Hancock insists no reason not to go back to work as 'little evidence' coronavirus is passed on in offices.
But what about on packed trains, tubes and buses on the way to work?
My mate who had to spend two grand to be locked in a shit hotel room in Heathrow for ten days so he could get home to see his terminally ill father before he died did not find this anywhere near as hilarious as Case and Hancock did.
On April 4th everyone can pre-order the Knob / k•no•b•1 for $439 USD in both ANSI and ISO layouts.
We have been working tirelessly on all the details to blow people away when you get it on your desks in Q3 2024
Many more details to come.
Today I left home in Amsterdam, worked in Switzerland, did financial services work through a Dutch company, then flew back from an airport in France.
Still blows my mind that British public have voted to be the only Europeans not be able to do this, in just 11 months time.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if someone dies prematurely leaving behind a wife and children, but you didn’t agree with their politics, you always have the option of saying nothing.
We all occasionally worry our projects don’t deliver the intended benefits.
But take comfort in seeing how Apple have spent millions on machine learning and hired some of the finest minds in the industry in order to offer this quality of insight.
London no-go zones: a definitive guide
Finchley. You've seen it there on the map, just north of Hampstead. But have you ever been there? Do you know anyone who lives there? No you do not.
@zatzi
I was part of the team that led the roll out of iPads at the UK Parliament. Our work showed these have a significantly lower cost for delivery of order papers, as well as enabling members to work more efficiently.
Have you considered actually doing some work on it?
Taylor Swift’s new album has a track about London and I Have Some Concerns
1) No one enjoys walking Camden Market in the afternoon
2) Ditto an afternoon in the pub with our red trousered brethren while the rugby is on
3) Friends don’t make friends go to to the West End
Made the mistake of putting
@bbcsml
on. Their expert panel discussing education includes Darren Grimes, whose sole qualification is that he once attended a school.
I try to defend the BBC but they do themselves no favours with this nonsense.
@Conservatives
I’m not sure that MPs being funded by donations from working people rather than corporations and dodgy Russians is quite the spicy take you seem to think it is, lads.
HSBC has a gender pay gap of *61%*. For every pound a man makes, a woman at HSBC earns just 39p. I’ll take this kind of content seriously when you fix the important stuff.
To celebrate
#IWD2020
, we are sharing three stories of being a woman in business and in the workplace today. In the first, Datin Mina, an HSBC client in Malaysia, talks about the opportunities that gender balance can create
#EachForEqual
Here's the rub. My personal tax is not noticeably higher here in the "high tax" Netherlands but my street's clean, my bins get picked up twice a week and I can get a doctor's appointment.
The common refrain about the UK wanting European-style public services and US-style taxes is becoming less true.
We’re moving closer to European taxes but *without* European public services.
Really great news. We've been working closely with the Spanish government to make touring easier - and they've just confirmed that musicians no longer need visas to go on short-term tours
21 Member States now offer visa & permit-free routes for touring performers. 6 more to go.
@JohnCleese
@scottd44
They aired Flying Circus in 2004, 2005 & 2019. BBC2 had Python At 50, Lawyers Cut & Holy Grail 50th anniversary documentary (2009). UK Gold, owned by BBC Studios, have created brand new docos and aired the live show in 2014.
Do other 50 year old shows get shown that often?
I endure nationalised railways here in the Netherlands. This suffering includes:
- walk-on fares to travel from one end of the country which cost 80% less than equivalent journeys in the UK
- getting a seat
- trains running on time
The return of the British Rail sandwich.
Only a group of PAds that have never endured nationalised railways could think this is a good idea.
The answer to a lack of competition has never been less competition.
@camillahmturner
Biggest war in Europe in 80 years, petrol at 191p a litre, people struggling to put food on the table, inflation at a generation high, housing crisis, and the prospect of a bleak energy crisis winter, and her priority is putting post-it notes on toilets? Unhinged.
@TiffanyATrump
@EricTrump
Hi Tiffany. Not sure if you know but you can send birthday greetings privately by email or SMS rather than insensitively centring your own family over, for example, someone dying at the hands of a mob directed by your father. HTH.
Yeah I loved getting a 6.16am train to the office, leaving my desk only to pay through the nose for a bland sandwich and eat it at my desk, and walking out into the dark evening to squeeze on the Waterloo and City. A laugh a fucking minute, that was.
With the median UK Civil Service salary £28,180 and a Peloton bike + 1 year subscription coming in at £2,218, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the number of civil servants too busy working out on posh exercise bikes to go to the office is in the single figures at most.
The Conservative Party chairman has told people to "get off their pelotons and back to their desks".
Speaking at a Fringe event at the party conference, Oliver Dowden said civil servants needed to lead by example and get back to offices.
#cpc2021
Pontoon Dock. Along with other DLR stations these are places that don’t exist and whose sole purpose is to give you something to laugh at on the way to City Airport.
Scathing interview with a former US trade sec on
@BBCr4today
just now.
“Britain is desperate. You don’t quit your job before you get a new one, which you’ve done. There is no chance of US trade making up for what you lose with Brexit”
@jameskirkup
Who could have predicted that landing people with £50k debt in their early 20s while doing nothing about housing affordability might have long term consequences?
@amandamilling
Hi Amanda. This is a text based medium so I’ll assume you can read. Now if you apply this same skill to the bill to which you’re referring you’ll count 8 mentions of protecting memorials and none - not a single one - to the safety of women.
This should be used in corporate “how not to tweet” classes. I genuinely cannot think of something more crass and insensitive for a health minister to say on a day when nearly 1000 of their fellow citizens have died of a respiratory disease.
I’ve just spotted this gem in the government’s Brexit guidance. Are they saying you’ll need to get an ATA Carnet to take your work laptop or a microphone to EU countries for business?
Mornington Crescent. Closed for most of the 90s, to the chagrin of very few. Such is its mythical status that it spawned an entire radio show in which people pretend to go there.
“As a father of daughters…” is such a revealing phrase. The world would be a far better place if men realised women are people before they produced their own.
The last time I was sexually assaulted - by a group of men on a tube train at 7pm - the police told me to fill in the form on the website to report it.
But hold a poster on a bandstand and they’ve got four rozzers available to cuff you.
I am FURIOUS.
Today we’re celebrating my grandmother’s 96th birthday. At her advanced age - some 66 years after she moved to the UK - she is being forced to apply for Settled Status to be allowed to stay in the UK with the other three generations of her family.
@sharonodea
Morden is not so much a place as a distant threat, a terminus we all hope never to reach. If you dare to head towards Morden, it will always alarmingly be “via Bank” (but you don’t collect £200). And it sounds a bit like Mordor too.
@DeborahMeaden
Plus it underpins both the Good Friday agreement AND the EU Trade Agreement, so she’s essentially saying she wants to draw us into a trade war. Not sure if she’s daft, dangerous, or both.
Man with £1.2bn central London commercial real estate portfolio and city centre display advertising venture wants you back in city centre offices. I wonder why that is?
Boris says it's no longer necessary to work from home. So city people get back to the offices let's kick start the local economy for shops,cafes who suffered badly. Some people may have become complacent liking this new style of working.Well those folk will never work for me.
@knguyenpoetry
I wish I’d thought of this. I inherited a line-managee in a re-org and learned they were paid substantially more than me. I was told they couldn’t adjust mid-year but they promised to sort it at bonus time.
They did not fix it at bonus time.
@metpoliceuk
If Wayne Couzens had stopped me in the street do you think he’d have waited while I called 999 to check he was legit? Or would he have cuffed me, bundled all 4’11” of me in the car he rented for the express purpose of abducting a woman?
This advice is appalling and insulting.
@darrengrimes_
Grasp of a foreign language gained through the most expensive education possible and several years spent living in a French-speaking country. The former isn’t open to working class kids and your campaign has removed the option for the latter from future generations. So well done.
Hannan managed to be wrong on almost any topic under the sun. In any sane society he’d be ignored as a crank. But instead he was given a seat in the Lords as a reward.
On this day four years ago.
One of the worst takes on the pandemic.
Two weeks later the first UK death was reported. Within little more than a month large parts of the world went into some form of lockdown.
Over the following year, >140,000 people in the UK would die of COVID.
It’s genuinely funny how spectacularly wrong every single prediction and promise in this ‘Britain After Brexit’ piece from galaxy brain Daniel Hannan turned out to be.
@KemiBadenoch
Are you seriously trying to argue that mocking transgender women is fine, but being shocked and offended at the PM doing this in front of the mother of a murdered child is "political point-scoring"?
@patel4witham
Doubling visas to a whopping 120 will do nothing to replace the numbers that have already left, you useless headline chasing smirk factory.
Justine Greening on
@BBCr4today
is damning on the future of the party and her future in it. “We need to be more than the Brexit party or we have no future”
(I really must stop listening to Today in the morning, it leaves me so depressed at the state of everything)
This is a staggeringly powerful short film from
@OborneTweets
- who voted Leave - on the consequences for Northern Ireland and why he now regrets his vote. Watch in full.
Gov quietly drop plan to reintroduce imperial measures after - despite being the most horrendously designed and biased consultation possible - 98.7% of respondents opposed the move.
@ShippersUnbound
Watching
@YvetteCooperMP
wipe the floor with her week after week would be funny were it not for the whole 'massive danger to national security' thing.
@campbellclaret
@peoplesvote_uk
Imagine having such an ingrained sense of privilege you think a court case should be shelved because it's bad timing for the advancement of your career. The rest of us can’t even get out of jury duty when it’s not convenient.
@LordAshcroft
Also "Your Country Needs You" was a WW1 slogan which for myriad reasons was not reprised in WW2. And it was changed from 'Needs' to 'Wants' during the course of the campaign to try and improve impact. So you're wrong on three counts in the first point alone.
“This is not a game. I will vote against an election anytime before the end of October until this is done because my constituents need me here doing my job”
Bloody love
@jessphillips
. You can hear the righteous, deserved anger in her voice.
Predictably everyone's outraged about this but:
a) there are 13k Parliamentary passholders, the overwhelming majority of whom are not MPs and aren't on high salaries
b) the site has a security cordon, popping to Greggs is challenging
c) plus many people working at odd hours
This is such a great example of how Teams is culturally situated. This kind of thing goes down really well in India, and to a lesser degree in the US. In the UK it's weird and no one will use it. And I've been involved in German Works Councils discussions to have this turned off.
@jameskostohryz
Or maybe, since you’re evidently not well clued up on reproductive health, you should refrain from pronouncing what women should be doing with their bodies?
@jessphillips
“Do you think Rawls' Original Position is a liberal solution to the conundrum about inequality brought up in Locke's 2 Treatises of Government?”
Some truly terrible advice here from the inexplicably popular YouTube gobshite.
Never work for free. If you don’t value your time, others won’t either. And you devalue the work of others too.
I mean Ben & Jerrys was the best selling ice cream in the US last year and made $170m in profit, but tell me again how Kemi Badeonoch is the one who can get Britain’s economy moving.
Kemi Badenoch hit out at what she described as the "Ben & Jerry's tendency" within business at her campaign launch.
She cited the firm as an example of a business whose "main priority is social justice, not productivity and profits."
I swear Boris just said at
#PMQs
“I don’t believe that any government could have done more to help the people of this country”
Ponder, for a moment, the gaping chasm between his belief in his abilities and the objective truth of 128k dead people and the worst recession in the G7
@tomhunt1988
Tom: can you clairify what makes one a member of elite society? Is it attending private school and Cambridge, as you did? Or is it growing up with immigrants as neighbours and friends and having some basic empathy and morality?
Clearly I’m no fan but Boris is objectively awful in today’s anniversary
#PMQs
. Evasive, shifty, relying on crappy pre-prepared jokes. And doing Putin’s work for him by seeking to deepen Brexit divisions rather an address foreign interference in our democracy.
Regretfully we are just minutes away from a wave of lengthy LinkedIn updates and thinkpieces on what the Lionesses' victory means for management/leadership/recruitment/blockchain.