This is a story about nostalgia and Pie & Mash, in equal portions. Trump’s triumph seems to have unleashed a flood of Facebook posts with titles like ‘Brits Only’ or ‘We are UK Lovers’. At face value these posts seem curiously random photographs of our past. Now I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with nostalgia, British or otherwise, but something about them just doesn’t add up: The authors of these posts probably don’t have English as their first language; certainly not British English. [Read More]

Hardly a day goes by without my linkedin feed either celebrating the demise of remote work or a post from someone explaining that, just possibly, people may quite like the idea of seeing more of their family and less of some strangers back or shoulder on an over-crowded commuter train. Yes, I do have an opinion on this and yes I currently work remote. I’m writing this because it seems to me the anti-remote posts are mostly senior managers concerned that a way of working that has served them so well may be coming to and end. [Read More]