Commuting is often expensive and rarely convenient. It’s possibly the least productive and fulfilling time of our days.

The long term future of work is changing and not sure being the aggressively pro-commuting party is going to be good politics or good economics. https://twitter.com/bbchelena/status/1300180776634511360

The big policy question is how to make cities and towns thrive in an age of less office-dominated working.

The opportunity - rebalance the economy outside major cities, better distributed demand for housing, giving people more time - is huge, if it is grasped.

We’re going to spend many years dealing with the aftermath of Covid, with immense economic and social consequences.

Guilting people into going back to the office so they can spend a tenner on a sandwich & coffee every day, while risking their health, doesn’t address any of this.