If civil servants working from home weren’t costing the taxpayer enough already, HMRC staff who are cosily working from home have managed to lose a whopping £1 million worth of phones and laptops in just three years. Last year’s figures reveal that these home-working heroes lost around 10 mobile phones and two laptops every single week…

In the same time, our diligent tax collectors also reported 95 phones, 562 laptops, and one memory device as stolen. If sensitive information being nicked doesn’t raise enough alarm bells to make officials rethink the shirking from home trend, what will…