The Future of Work: Are the robots coming for the white collar worker?
In the second part of our Future of Work series, we look at how automation could change everything for the middle class employee
26 April 2021 • 5:00am About half of all the activities people are paid to do in the world’s workforce could potentially be automated
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In America, Walmart has just announced it is building warehouses run by robots. “The technology is impressive,” the superstore boasts. “Equally impressive are the results.”
In Britain, your Ocado shop is already sorted by machines equipped with an astonishing array of grabbers, ready to pluck and pack everything from bananas to frozen food.
Captain Tom Moore s unseen family pictures
It would have been Captain Sir Tom Moore’s 101st birthday this week. Here, his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore talks about the father she knew
24 April 2021 • 7:00am
Clockwise from right: The family at the Champers restaurant in Barbados; and in previously unpublished pictures, Captain Tom with former cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers at Bridgetown’s Kensington Oval; with daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and grandchildren Benjie and Georgia on Christmas Day last year; at home
in early December
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Just over a year ago, Captain Tom Moore was living a quiet life in Bedfordshire with his daughter Hannah, her husband Colin and their two children, Benjie, now 17, and Georgia, 12. He had served in the Army, got married, had two daughters, retired. So far, so normal.
Bernie Madoff stole my dad’s money – and his life
The most American of scandals surrounding the largest Ponzi scheme in history changed Willard Foxton s world forever
Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison
I heard about Bernie Madoff’s death this week the same way I heard about my father’s suicide – in both cases, my phone rang out of the blue in the middle of the workday, a relative told me the news and, all of a sudden, my world changed. Both times, it left me numb.
I’d always thought my father Bill – a bear of a man with a handlebar moustache and a row of gallantry medals earned on far flung fields from Belfast to Bosnia – was invincible. His friends told me that when he’d lost his arm in combat, his reaction had been to make a joke about losing his Rolex.
‘Philip was one of the boys’: Meet the survivors of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Guinea Pig Club
Offering pioneering plastic surgery to pilots who received life-changing injuries in the war, it s the ‘most exclusive club in the world’
15 April 2021 • 5:00am
The Duke of Edinburgh was the club s president from 1960 to 2017
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There have only ever been two presidents of the Guinea Pig Club, and Bob Marchant has been privileged enough to meet them both. The first was in 1956 when, after leaving the RAF, he took up a position at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead where Sir Archibald McIndoe was treating pilots who had suffered life-changing injuries in the war.
How we re spending our Covid cash
For some, no commute and no daily expenditure means an unexpected benefit of the pandemic is a hefty savings pot
Has lockdown made it easier to build your savings?
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For Lee Putnam, lockdowns have had a silver lining: he no longer spends three hours a day in the car commuting from Chertsey to Uxbridge. He spends the extra time with his girlfriend and son; he used the money saved so far to buy a pizza oven.
“I started making pizza and I loved it,” says Putnam, 33. In a normal year, he might not have spent £400 on an Ooni gas-fired oven, but this is not a normal year.