@NFauchereau
@knighton_bob
I think this is actually the Jordan Peterson story. Years and years of serious papers about clinical psychiatry that no one cared about, then he does what everyone in academic psych dreams of: having a bestselling self-help book for idiots who need to be told to tidy their room.
@carl_thompson70
@msloobylou
Those things have been going around in London for a few years now. I can't confirm if it's just the same hen party constantly on the move. Maybe they went North?
@Jason_G_Eaves
@jamestplunkett
WFH leads to erosion of boundaries and the presumption that someone is always available. Stepping in and out of the office should be when the day starts and ends. Yes, I know it's never quite that, but it gets worse without it.
@cjayanetti
We already had this discourse with the "stop spending money in Pret" (pre-pandemic) followed by "you need to spend money in Pret" (pandemic). Telegraph writers don't have a consistent set of imperatives for young people. They just don't like them.
@redmondmichael1
I was going to write "That's an old Michael Redmond joke"... and then I saw you are Michael Redmond.
You told that on Radio 4 in 1988, and Friday Night Live a few weeks later. And it's still great.
@atomic_elbow
Fucking hell and I always expect total documentary realism from Wonder Woman films.
There's a bit earlier when they're discussing the Treaty Of Versailles and she gets the details of the Saarland governance wrong as well.
@stevenpoole
It's like in the 80s: whilst the Right footled about in the shallow end of the Bank Of England, MI5 and the Army, the Left seized the real power centres of The Listener, Time Out, and Middlesex University English Department.
@FeserEdward
The only serious remedy is to surgically sterilize males until they have the maturity for the commitment of fatherhood, at which point the operation can be reversed and an electronic tagging device implanted to ensure they never abscond.
@tnielsenhayden
@charles_consult
I always wondered why the NYPD didn't just have a bunch of guys in those places all the time, they'd get all the really big heists and conspiracies
Can we have a venn diagram of "WFH is killing Pret A Manger [now]" and "Milennials could afford a deposit if they stop going to Pret A Manger [2019]" pls.
@CapenerSean
I expect you're fishing for something like "The God Delusion"... but I expect the books that cause real problems are all those dreary management tomes that most of us never look at, but we experience their briefly-fashionable influence in bad decisions that impact jobs and lives.
@FeserEdward
It must be accepted as normal and necessary for police to stop and question any fathers at large at night on the streets or in bars to check they are not taking too much time away from work or home.
@Badger5000
Speaking as a meaningless internet contrarian, I assert that Chiles is superior to the affected Barthesian styling of "theorists" and his quotidian naivete is more valuable to future cultural archaeologists.
Does anyone know why The Spectator havent scanned all the pages from their issue of 9th April 1994 into their Archive yet? It was a big thing at the time, discussed on the Today programme.
@econseptiles
@jamestplunkett
Workers chatting in a canteen can be a very efficient way to spread news and raise issues, helpful in a tech-based business.
How many of these "we don't need offices" opinions are coming from male managers who don't directly have to fix problems?
@electricalWSOP
I saw a G.G.Allin album cover that had a quote from you saying you saw a great gig he did. So if you don't like someone's live show, it must be literally worse than shit.
@patrickamon
@Miss_Snuffy
@akalamusic
The dead ones aren't too well known either. Plato, Machiavelli and Marx probably the only candidates, and their actual ideas even less known.
@brokenbottleboy
It's like De Niro says to the slot-machine guy in Casino: either you knew about the scam, and I should fire you for fraud, or you didn't, then I should fire you for incompetence.
@turincomplete
@doodlestein
@paulg
Sure. You don't actually need technical people to run a tech business. You just need a syncophantic audience of soft-headed libertarian fanboys who get weak-kneed at the thought of Big Important Business Dudes.