My few nights away from a comparatively well-behaved Cotswolds shows why we’re into another lockdown and why it’s unlikely be enough. Maskless blokes in trackies and baseball hats, daring anyone to confront them in motorway service stations. Crowds of students and drunken locals thronging police-free streets on Halloween Saturday. The poshest of local restaurants booked to last-chance capacity within an hour of the Boris pronouncement. The Common Sense of the Great British People.
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.