Tag: COVID-19

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Women usually get the boot first when diversity drives begin. Credit: Samuel de Roman/Getty Images

03/27/2020 - 12:00am

Pity the women locked in with their abusers How long will the Government ignore those families trapped at home with violent partners?

Thursday

26.03

It’s time for an NHS National Service The biggest crisis since the Second World War calls for a huge effort to mobilise the young and healthy

How society can survive Covid-19 Social capital has been left to atrophy over generations — now is the time to replenish it

Can our mental health cope? Don't catastrophise: conquering things is what we humans do

Polly Mackenzie

Wednesday

25.03

Will the pandemic kill off libertarianism? Coronavirus is forcing us to reckon with some basic assumptions about freedom

Coronavirus has given Orban his excuse The Hungarian leader has used the crisis to erode political freedom

Alexander Faludy

Covid-19 is the nail in the coffin for traditional funerals Its legacy will be that we separate the disposal of the body from the commemoration of the life

Why this could be worse than the Spanish flu We may have far better medicine than 100 years ago, but we're not as well prepared for the aftershocks of an epidemic

Stay-at-home mums are ready for lockdown Spending all day every day at home with my spouse and child is already my normal

Mary Harrington

Tuesday

24.03

Would you take a coronavirus risk? We are stuck in the middle of a massive multiplayer coordination problem

I’m frightened I’ll die of Covid-19 The coronavirus has made me realise I was in denial about my leukaemia

Stephen Pollard

Plague and the comforts of history From Bede to T.S. Elliot, suffering in the face of overwhelming terror is what links us