when i am at home, i do catch up on a lot of admin, but i do hate having teams calls, i would rather have face to face chats, because i get so much more out of them. i think the 9 5 in my opinion is gone now, for the majority of businesses, you know, i was up working last night, just because i enjoy working in the evening, even just to relax and do my admin and things like that. i think sometimes it is difficult at home, because i still dressl the same, but i will be wearing my slippers, l so i don t think there is the same level of, | like, professionalism as i do in the office. i do you know what? i think it levels the playing field. i think it makes it ok to want to leave at three to pick up your dog, because you got a new dog in lockdown, or leave at three to pick up the kids or leave at three just because you like doing yoga. in a bbc survey, almost two thirds of workers said they would like to work remotely at least some of the time, but not many of us, 22%, want to be at home ev
and undermined international nuclear nonproliferation efforts. british industry is likely to benefit from the deal which could see large contracts for engineering and technology firms. but australia s decision to opt for a nuclear powered submarines means cancelling a contract with france to build a diesel electric ones and the french have called it a betrayal. translation: it is a stab in the back, we had established a relationship of trust with a string of about trust has been broken. there s a lot of bitterness about the cancellation on this matter is not over. the backdrop to all of this is a massive military build up by china. it has invested billions of dollars in expanding its navy, by china. it has invested billions of dollars in expanding its navy, our beijing correspondent, stephen mcdonell, told us there had been a furious reaction to the pact from china.
meeting of the four quad leaders here in a few days. and i think bringing great britain into this makes all the sense in the world, and i think when the french think about it a little bit, they ll want to be part of it, too. this deal is the first significant us defence initiative since pulling out of afghanistan last month. ambassador bolton was also asked if the two things are related and how the taliban s takeover of afghanistan has impacted global security. i think the withdrawal decision from afghanistan was a catastrophic mistake. i mean, the actual execution of the withdrawal was almost humiliating, but the underlying strategic question of whether the us and nato should have kept a military presence in afghanistan i think was clear. i think it s a big win for china, russia, pakistan and iran, a setback for the us and its friends. but i think this initiative helps to show that even in the biden administration which i don t think has the stomach required for a lot of steps we ne
additional pressure on the health service, at a time where we have still got quite a lot of pressure from covid, but covid and influenza at the same time is far more serious than just covid by itself. so, yes, i think we need to get on with this and also the influenza campaign as well. we can t afford not to progress with the flu campaign this autumn. a diplomatic row has broken out following the announcement of a new security and defence partnership between the uk, the us, and australia. the prime minister says the deal isn t intended to be adversarial towards any other power. but china has called the pact extremely irresponsible and france says the decision to scrap its submarine deal with australia is a stab in the back . our security correspondent frank gardner reports. silent and stealthy. a nuclear powered submarine on patrol. only six countries in
already have. 80% of the homes we will be living in in 30 years time we already have and they are already, many of them, poor quality. you are also the chairman of clarion housing association as well. what has gone wrong? we have been publicly shamed. the homes that have been featured are part of a major regeneration project and because we have been focusing on the regeneration, we ve been less concerned about the quality of the homes on a day to day basis and we got that wrong and have taken huge steps to change it. most poor housing is owner occupied and the report praises an innovative scheme that provides low cost loans to those who cannot afford repairs. we work with a lot of people who are asset rich and cash poor so we can make the payments over a longer timescale so we re not giving anything away, people are borrowing the money and paying it back. repairing england s four million poor quality homes plays a crucial part in solving the country s housing shortage. michael buchana