I can just hear conversations amongst the older generations of my childhood: ‘Charity begins at home, doesn’t it? We shouldn’t be helping all these foreigners, we have enough problems of our own. It’s all taken by (insert names of various potentates) and the like anyway’. Sadly, there are many of similar bent who won’t be in the least bit worried about this. Many of the younger generation (which in this case includes me) will find it shockingly arrogant and penny-pinching. We’ve already cut the aid budget. Let’s hope there’s no such thing as karma.
“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’.
