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But what actually lies behind all these metrics and statistics? What are the benefits of strong productivity growth? How does productivity affect our day-to-day lives? What contributes to the lag? What even IS productivity? On today s episode of
The Detail, Emile Donovan sits down with the chair of the Productivity Commission, economist Dr Ganesh Nana, to discuss all these questions – and why the concept of wellbeing has complicated what we prioritise. Productivity, Nana says, can be neatly explained by imagining a hectare of land. “If we ve got a hectare of land, and we plant it with carrots, productivity is the measure of carrots we get every year out of that piece of land.
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JUST how much Tom O’Connor’s screenplay for Dominic Cooke’s film depends on two books written by British electrical engineer Greville Wynne, and also how correctly those books tell the story, must be a matter for conjecture at this stage.
“The Courier” tells a story reflecting Wynne’s service as an unassuming go-between for British intelligence MI-6 and Russian spy Oleg Penkovsky at the height of the Cold War.
Never formally acknowledged by the British government, Wynne wrote about his experiences in two self-aggrandising books, “The Man From Moscow” (1967) and “The Man From Odessa” (1981). The key word here is “self-aggrandising”.
Benedict Cumberbatch spy thriller opts for fanciful touches over truth
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In 1960, Greville Wynne was a British businessman with a toothbrush moustache and a clubbable manner that he cultivated diligently in softening up his clients. Then MI6 came into his life. Attracted by the fact his work required him to travel regularly to eastern Europe, the agency approached him to act as a courier in its dealings with Oleg Penkovsky, a former military colonel willing to supply MI6 and the CIA with information gleaned through his job with the Soviet government.
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