It becomes a real challenge to rapidly sense and respond to changes across the various remote locations.

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Clearly there are many cases where remote working is ideal, while in many others it makes no sense at all.

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In part, this may be because small schemes are typically run by committed people with a strong sense of mission, whereas large ones tend to be run by remote bureaucrats.

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They sense that Mr Blair, never close to his party, is becoming dangerously remote from it.

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In Scotland it happened because there was a clear sense of alienation between the Scottish electorate and a government in London that seemed too remote.

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Trips alight on various islands and also the Antarctic Peninsula to visit research stations run by different countries, giving a sense of the island's recent human history and the fragility of our hold on this most remote part of the world, beautiful and full of thrilling danger all at once.

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