Andy Lake

Director at advisor to Cabinet Office on Smart Working. Novelist - Shades of Green - a political/environmental novel with a difference

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@XuberantSoul23 @CoryBooker Trump and Vance - Russia's assets, or just assholes?

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

This is interesting - maybe the end of the Conservatives, and showing limited shelf like for Reform, with so little appeal amongst younger voters

[Paula Surridge @p_surridge]

This is extraordinary (again!). In @yougov latest Conservatives are in 5th place with the under 50's. Behind Labour, LibDems, Greens and Reform UK.

[Will @wsebag]

Prime Minister announces general election in the rain

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

Not sure I'm inspired by a man who claims in his speech today that he's committed to protecting us all, but doesn't know how to use an umbrella

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@markcatchlove And porters! I can just about remember them (though in a later decade than 1930s!). That was before someone invented suitcases with wheels.

[Winston @majiclike]

Mobilization in Russia. Day 2. #UkraineRussiaWar

[Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer]

Ian Goodfellow, Apple’s director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company’s most cited ML expert.

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@workessence Just 24 for me - but no Washington, Brussels, Guangdong (and several other major Chinese and European cities not on the list). I wonder how many more I can visit before age, infirmity and climate activism keep me from going further than Skegness and Cleethorpes?

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@PaigeHodsman Many thanks, Paige 😃

[Paige Hodsman @PaigeHodsman]

Beautifully written and thought-provoking as usual from Andy Lake. The Emerging Social Infrastructure of Work and Why the Workplace Industry Needs to Think Outside its Ever-Shrinking Boxes https://t.co/QyoIqoXwob

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

As the nature of work changes and millions work from home, we need to ask "What are homes for in the 21st century?" https://t.co/mEmkDVmhho

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

Check out my latest article: Rethinking the social infrastructure of work after the pandemic https://t.co/ENoDI9scSU via @LinkedIn

[Mandy Garner @WorkMumOnTheRun]

Are we ready for home to be the new workplace?
@AndyLakeWriter thinks we aren't and it’s time for a new national conversation about the social infrastructure needed for 21st century working - https://t.co/uZwMiGRMgM #homeworking

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@AgentTory @jessphillips There's detail??

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@RachelofLondon @antonyslumbers Line managers are being issued with binoculars so they can see if people are working. There's always a way.

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@antonyslumbers Offices should be built with high ceilings and a metre of crawl space suspended below. No corridors. Using low wheeled platforms people can slide along under the ceiling, then drop through tube to assigned seat. Maglev and AI versions coming soon. #MakeOfficesGreatAgain!

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@OwenJones84 Like most middle class professionals, I've been posting dusty ornaments to my cleaner to keep things ticking over. It's a joy for her when we box up the supper party clearing-up (still do these, via Zoom. Such fun!). Courier the lot over, helps the zero hours contract guys too!

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@vincecable My goodness - New Economic Policy was a reluctant and temporary concession for Lenin. Deng's reforms nothing like NEP. Deng (in both 1950s and 1989) shared with Lenin a taste for violently repressing 'rightists', free speech and any signs of democracy.

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

@JamieGrierson Interesting developments. This and much of what is happening now is prefigured in my 2013 novel "Shades of Green" - what happens when a radical green movement comes to power in the UK. https://t.co/z92oO7wFpe

[Andy Lake @AndyLakeWriter]

Brilliant television. And very necessary.

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Here are some clips from my documentary about Holocaust denial https://t.co/KI3q6gKQSF