Popular pub owner and new Freedom of Derby recipient Steve Kirk has told how he was left “emotionally devastated” when the coronavirus pandemic forced pubs to close. Mr Kirk was officially presented with the Freedom of Derby award at a special ceremony at Derby City Council headquarters in front of friends and family on Monday … Read more
Life under the sea is filled with simple pleasures, free from the hustle and bustle of human life. Who would have thought that, amid the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, there would be an upside to lockdowns for humpback whales? A team from the University of Queensland, led by the curious Dr Jake Linsky, has … Read more
A group of whales off the east coast of Australia. Photo: Jake Linsky. Research led by the University of Queensland has found that migrating humpback whales off the east coast of Australia became less stressed in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research paper was published in Research into the marine environment. Dr … Read more
Organizations must create attractive and welcoming workplaces to encourage employees to … [+] back to the office. getty Consultants and management gurus are prone to exaggerating what they call “paradigm shifts,” but it’s hard to argue with the central premise of Julia Hobsbawm’s new book: Working assumptions.The scale of disruption we are experiencing has not … Read more
The Prime Minister has been accused of being out of touch after claiming in an election interview that he missed ‘a lot of things’ as a child, including Sky TV Rishi Sunak’s Treasury blocked plans to roll out laptops for poorer children during the Covid lockdown(POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Rishi Sunak’s Treasury blocked plans to … Read more