The Home Working Dream

 This pandemic has seen a radical shift in work across Britain.

Many more people that can are working from home.

The greens have long promoted this as a way to reduce commuting emissions and improve quality of life.

However, now that it is in full swing there is a snag.

It is hurting the service industry.

Pret A Manger have shed a significant amount of jobs and the city is deserted, as they lose the commuter footfall.

This may not seem a great tragedy to some, but it does pose the question: Can we make the structural shift without endangering a huge amount of service jobs?

Are we going to see a work from home world post lockdown and is it really progress?

Jobs vs the Environment?

As Manchester dusts itself off and attempts to move through their grief and pay respect to lost lives, Donald Trump has a hissy fit over American jobs.

He is pulling America out of the climate deal, citing a threat to jobs as the problem.

Yet America has been involved in a trade war with China over solar panel production.

So. It only do they have the potential to produce and market environmentally friendly energy sources they can seemingly do so competitively.

Perhaps he should re-think his reasoning.