Terry Prone: Gig economy ages young workers prematurely

People who rarely got to see their own homes in daylight have had the space to look around and realise a coat of paint wouldn’t go amiss

The electricians, the plumbers, and the painters are back at work and run off their feet.

When you contribute to an enterprise course, as I have, many a time, the first thing you learn is that every third woman in this country has a dream of opening a coffee shop specialising in her family’s scones. Never mind the constant inspections seeking vermin droppings, the small margins, and the backbreaking labour; that’s the dream.

The second thing you learn is a general contempt for “lifestyle” business people — sole traders, in other words, or couples whose business supports themselves and their family and nobody else.