Do you hate being contacted by telephone however really feel okay about texting or assembly in individual? I’m instructed it’s one thing that impacts younger individuals extra and is seemed down upon. However I ponder: is it really returning to individuals’s pure sort?

As soon as we might sign from afar or ship written messages or meet in individual, however the thought of ​​assembly in some kind of individual whereas nonetheless miles aside was an impossibility.

Maybe telephone calls or on-line conferences at the moment are prevented as a result of they really really feel unnatural? Anyway, I could not discover a match with vehicles, so I could not put it in a column.

One pocket book entry for which I did consider a automobile angle nonetheless wants extra analysis. When Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe took a stake in Manchester United FC, he was reported to have known as individuals again to the workplace as a result of fewer emails had been despatched on Fridays, when individuals labored from house.

That statistic could also be true, however it’s extremely simplistic if it occurred as reported. It is doable that I write fewer emails after I’m not within the workplace, however that will be as a result of I’ve a number of thousand phrases to jot down and folks tapping me on the again each 20 minutes isn’t conducive to productiveness.

However I have been considering – and for this reason I’ve to bury my head in some statistics – about how this pertains to sensible highways. A few of their advocates say they’re the most secure roads within the nation, regardless of how unhealthy the general public feels about them.

What they do not say is how secure these areas had been beforehand and whether or not the accident charges have gone up or down since then.

Sensible highways are designed to ease congestion, so it stands to motive that they are first launched on the busiest (and thus the slowest and possibly most secure per passenger mile) stretches of highway. I’ll revisit this one so it’ll keep in my notes app.

About stats: the Sherman tank. Some media assume it is a profitable argument to say pickup vehicles are an analogous dimension to a Sherman. It is not a winner. Reality is the Sherman was an extremely compact tank, solely 5.8m lengthy.