Talk about a "time-short" world and the need to slow down, and most people will nod enthusiastically. They will go on to fantasise about days in the garden, deadheading roses or idly listening to the radio, or about long, slow lunches with a glass or two, or about having a good lie-in on Sundays. The need for more time, more leisure, is one of the great moans of this age. Well, the good news, at last, is that time is becoming a hot political issue.
It wasn't so long ago that 24/7 was something you only saw on slightly sad, all-night service-station shop windows. Then you started to get 24/7 plumbers advertising in telephone directories and 24/7 supermarkets in the biggest towns. Now it's grown into a central metaphor for the economy itself, a never sleeping, never stopping, digitally connected turmoil of activity, with global links that keep some offices going in the small hours.
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