At my work, there is quite a strong push to bring people back into the office, after an extended period of being enforced, then encouraged, then allowed to work from home. It seems that the Government direction (driven by Rishi Sunak’s conviction that we aren’t buying enough sandwiches in Pret a Manger, leading to the collapse of urban economies) is to get folk back into those empty buildings. My personal view is mixed. It seems mad that loads of office buildings are empty, but it also feels that we work in a new era, where for many office jobs, we are set up to work from home. I expect that this is a debate that will run and run, and then be overtaken by AI replacing our jobs in any case.
I mention all of this because I am now starting to return to the office, which gives me a chance to explore and seek out street/graffiti art on my walks to and from work, which are not on my more usual ’rounds’. I saw, for the first time walking to work recently, this commission piece by Mr Penfold in St Augustine’s Parade. It is a wonderful piece of corporate design, but so distinctively Mr Penfold, who has managed to blend his design work with his street art passion – great work if you can get it.
Natural adventures 
Governments didn’t consider the changes keeping everyone on lock down would bring. It’s the same here. People have had a taste of more freedom. Some have changed their lives entirely, others don’t have to pay for gas, daycare, etc., when working from home. Spending hours driving to and from the office. Now they want things the way they were before and people are like, “Yeah, no,” we like it this way.
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Exactly that. It demonstrates how controlling our governments are and how much they resist change, even the progressive ones.
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