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#LondonCalling: Life in London: Back to the office to save on the heat bill at home. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#LondonCalling: Life in London: Back to the office to save on the heat bill at home. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britons-ditch-working-from-home-to-cut-heating-bills-523l0rplk

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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Bachelors, and two themes of life and London together.

0:12.2

Just stop oil stopping a bus that was headed for something called BB Stockholm.

0:18.1

Here are two themes that don't really work, but there it is in a video and a picture in

0:24.5

the Times of London.

0:26.1

You know, what is BB Stockholm?

0:29.2

It is a barge on which the British government has been planning to house illegal immigrants

0:36.2

while there are various legal processes such as their asylum claims and that sort of

0:41.2

thing or process.

0:42.5

And the issue has just been that the numbers that were coming over were becoming unmanageable

0:47.7

and there wasn't a place to house people.

0:51.8

And so this barge has been put together as a stopgap idea, not necessarily a very good

0:57.2

idea, I have to say, but it's what they were doing and it has become deeply contentious

1:04.6

politically.

1:05.6

And now it seems to be becoming a focus for climate campaigners too, go figure.

1:10.2

Yes, BB Stockholm disgraced itself when it interrupted sporting contests.

1:15.1

And I thought that it was dustbin of history, but it's back protesting migration, which

1:21.2

side of they are, because they got a lot of attention with their orange shirts and orange

1:26.0

blockades.

1:27.0

Well, I mean, just off oil has never really gone away, although my sense is that the government

1:31.7

is slowly getting better at policing them, including not letting them out on bail if

1:38.4

they've been arrested and then are deemed to be particularly likely to reoffend, as

1:43.0

big many of them seem to be.

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