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There has been a lot of comment since the beginning of lockdown about the likelihood of the move away from office working, to a more flexible approach, becoming permanent. Some …

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/277/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/277/pub/277/page/63/article/58894 In this week’s Sunday Telegraph Julie Burchill wrote compellingly about the different views on how important it is for schools in the UK to reopen.  The main points she …

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/yes-michael-gove-there-is-dysfunction-in-government-it-starts-with-you-rlp8wkbxq?shareToken=008d92a7e0a6336fe016aac03a42420f Mathew Syed, whose book ‘Rebel Ideas’ I reviewed here recently, has an interesting piece in the Sunday Times this week. In a lecture last week Michael Gove argued that …

  http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/272/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/272/pub/272/page/111/article/54652 I totally agree with Mervyn King, previously Governor of the Bank of England, who taught me when I read Economics at Cambridge. In a piece by Liam Halligan …

  https://app.spectator.co.uk/2020/06/17/a-class-apart/content.html Lucy Kellaway is a British journalist who wrote for over 15 years for the Financial Times.  She then trained to be a teacher and is co-founder of the …

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lets-never-have-another-shutdown-s0b6vng8b?shareToken=2e19c53b3684b4809d4a0df7fcfecca7  Luke Johnson, well known as a serial entrepreneur, including Pizza Express (hugely successful) and Patisserie Valerie (lees so), has a piece in the Sunday Times arguing the lockdown has …

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/245/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/245/pub/245/page/113/article/47023 Roger Bootle, the well-known economist, predicts that the crisis could spell the end of the office as we know it. On 10th March, shortly before the lockdown in the …