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Silly McSilly Face said:
And local shops, pubs, bars and cafes get all the business from the thousands of workers that come in most working days. It's also a generalisation to say that the finance being processed by the city is just going to the rich. The city is no.1 in the world for trade finance and insurance. They still ring a bell in Lloyds every time a ship sinks. The insurance market and trading floors are a fascinating place. These trades are vital for global commerce. And while there are no doubt lots of funds under management on behalf of the global rich, there's billions under management on behalf of everyone else's pensions and public services. NHS trusts, police forces, local authorities, they all use the capital markets. They invest spare funding into timed deposits that are paid out with interest.
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Hence the escalation of 'work from home' during and now after COVID is a fly in the soup
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Hence the escalation of 'work from home' during and now after COVID is a fly in the soup
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My industry is fully hybrid unless you work within a venue/hotel. But even then, in hotels its mainly only the operational staff on site now and not the sales/marketing teams etc. TBF it works for the industry IMO, its fluid, more proactive and companies save a fortune on property and services.

London's working and obsession with being seen to be in an office was always slightly old school in a modern world. Granted it can't work in all industry but in many it clearly does and IMO offers a good work life balance.

I myself and those I contract in have to travel weekends and evenings, hosting clients etc, next week I am hosting clients in the evenings with someone I contract, on the balance of work and life there is no way in that environment would I now work in an office 5 days a week or expect those working for me to do so either, a lot of it comes to trust but also respect of the efforts put into the job and balancing that with fairness.

Its almost like the licensing act in this country which came in as a war time restriction and has remained ever since, this country has alot of attitudes to work bang on, others are so old fashioned its laughable
 
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Not sure if this is a "politics" issue, but declining numbers of people entering church of England on census documents and attending congregations coupled with an increasing number of conversions means that Roman Catholicism is now the most widely practiced religion in England for the first time since the reformation. Demographics of active practitioners (Catholicism is by far the most widely practised form of Christianity by those under 30) mean that it will likely become the dominant form of Christianity in this country.
 
Silly McSilly Face said:
Not sure if this is a "politics" issue, but declining numbers of people entering church of England on census documents and attending congregations coupled with an increasing number of conversions means that Roman Catholicism is now the most widely practiced religion in England for the first time since the reformation. Demographics of active practitioners (Catholicism is by far the most widely practised form of Christianity by those under 30) mean that it will likely become the dominant form of Christianity in this country.
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Interesting, I am more shocked of any rise given how the landscape of the world has changed and people having more interests and distractions. That along with the idea that believing in any kinda sky fairies seems an odd thing in 2025.
 
My work is international and I am the only person in the UK in my workstream.

Could go into the office but I don’t even have a pass nor will I be looking to get one.

The sooner they close that rented space the better. Money would be better spent not being charged to clients in the first place.
 
Silly McSilly Face said:
Not sure if this is a "politics" issue, but declining numbers of people entering church of England on census documents and attending congregations coupled with an increasing number of conversions means that Roman Catholicism is now the most widely practiced religion in England for the first time since the reformation. Demographics of active practitioners (Catholicism is by far the most widely practised form of Christianity by those under 30) mean that it will likely become the dominant form of Christianity in this country.
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A lack of contraception will do that.

My wife attended a catholic school and as recently as 20 years ago they were still fast forwarding those parts of the sex ed videos.
 
scaramanga said:
A lack of contraception will do that.

My wife attended a catholic school and as recently as 20 years ago they were still fast forwarding those parts of the sex ed videos.
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I went to a catholic girls school. Our biology teacher was the sister of the headmistress who at that time was a nun. We were told that the best form of contraception was to say a prayer. This was in the 1980s. Seriously. I mean that’s just negligence.
 
Silly McSilly Face said:
Not sure if this is a "politics" issue, but declining numbers of people entering church of England on census documents and attending congregations coupled with an increasing number of conversions means that Roman Catholicism is now the most widely practiced religion in England for the first time since the reformation. Demographics of active practitioners (Catholicism is by far the most widely practised form of Christianity by those under 30) mean that it will likely become the dominant form of Christianity in this country.
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Id imagine Polish and Ukrainian immigration will have been a big contributor to that. Young people from those countries havent caught up with atheism yet as much as the rest of modern britain
 
Gutter Boy said:
Id imagine Polish and Ukrainian immigration will have been a big contributor to that. Young people from those countries havent caught up with atheism yet as much as the rest of modern britain
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Yep. Just 4% of 18-24 year olds regularly attended church in 2018 and that has risen to 16% in 2024, predominantly Catholic and majority of influence is immigration from eastern Europe, Asia and africa. Although conversions (people being confirmed as Catholics having not being brought up as one) have also been a significant influence, particularly among young men.
 
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Glenda's Legs said:
Didn’t the most recent census show a big uptick in people declaring as non-religious? Outnumbering any individual religion by some distance? I found that quite encouraging.
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Yep, "no religion" is by far the biggest trend in the UK over the last few decades and that more than anything else has helped Catholicism leapfrog Anglicanism as the most widely practicised religion. Although as I've said, immigration has led to a potential reversal of that trend in the younger age groups. There has been a steady flow of immigration from conservative Catholic and Muslim countries and the kids of those immigrants are starting to become church or mosque going adults with more conservative values than the youth of Britain have held for the last few decades.
 
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Silly McSilly Face said:
Yep, "no religion" is by far the biggest trend in the UK over the last few decades and that more than anything else has helped Catholicism leapfrog Anglicanism as the most widely practicised religion. Although as I've said, immigration has led to a potential reversal of that trend in the younger age groups. There has been a steady flow of immigration from conservative Catholic and Muslim countries and the kids of those immigrants are starting to become church or mosque going adults with more conservative values than the youth of Britain have held for the last few decades.
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I did a project management contract for AJ v Usyk 1 and Usyk went missing on the Afternoon of the fight, walking round Stratford looking for a church to pray and have service.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
I went to a catholic girls school. Our biology teacher was the sister of the headmistress who at that time was a nun. We were told that the best form of contraception was to say a prayer. This was in the 1980s. Seriously. I mean that’s just negligence.
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It's not exact, as close as I can remember, taken from a series of WWII novels I read

Holy mother who conceived without sinning, I pray to thee that I can sin without conceiving.
 
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