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  • Views on life in the continuing crisis: part one

    ‘The gap between rich and poor can’t be resolved without deliberate inequality-busting policies, and too few governments are committed to these’ (Oxfam India CEO Amitabh Behar). THERE is a post doing the rounds on Facebook, […]

    January 31, 2021Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on the world as lockdown lifts: part six, second wave

    LOCKDOWN 2.0 (to adopt the favoured 21st century label) contrasts hugely with Lockdown 1.0, not only with respect to school closures, air quality and the weather, but also in relation to the ‘rules’. ‘Few seem […]

    November 23, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on the world as lockdown lifts: part five, skulduggery

    AS children we learnt the importance of honesty and fairness, and were quick with ‘it’s not fair’ whenever we suspected unequal treatment. No doubt we didn’t always tell the truth, but I remember my internal […]

    October 19, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on the world as lockdown lifts: part four, uncertainty and confusion

    ‘IF you’re not confused, you haven’t been paying attention’ (Tom Peters, rough paraphrase There are, quite suddenly, increasing numbers of new cases of coronavirus in the UK, the R number is now 1–1.2, and a […]

    September 14, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on the world as lockdown lifts: part three, authority or authoritarianism?

    ‘AS well as longer-term proposals to reduce the incidence of obesity, government officials are having urgent discussions about how to persuade people to lose weight in the next few months, before an anticipated resurgence in […]

    August 10, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on the world as lockdown lifts: part two, new behaviours

    ‘AMID mounting confusion over face masks inside takeaways, No 10 confirms once-and-for-all that masks are compulsory in the optional sense, unless you’re eating in, whereby they become optionally compulsory.’ (Have I Got News For You, […]

    July 20, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on the world as lockdown lifts: part one, race and racism

    I UNDERSTAND that I don’t understand, but I stand (Black Lives Matter demo banner) On Saturday 13 June, early afternoon, I turned idly to Twitter to see what was going on ‘out there’ and began […]

    June 22, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • Tales from four countries in a time of lockdown: part ten

    Sheffield AS lockdown got underway, with an understandable focus on physical wellbeing, attention also turned to emotional and psychological impact. Quite suddenly, routines were forced to change, ‘real’ social contact was only with those in […]

    June 9, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • A tale of four countries in a time of lockdown: part nine

    Sheffield The thing about Johnson is that he desperately wanted to become prime minister, and he desperately wanted to have been prime minister. It’s just the bit in between he struggles with (Marina Hyde). BORIS […]

    June 1, 2020Miscellaneous

     
  • A tale of four countries in a time of lockdown: part eight

    Sheffield IN 1908, just short of 15, my maternal grandmother Elizabeth Smith began her apprenticeship to become a dressmaker. In due course she passed her skills to her daughters (once by throwing a half-made dress […]

    May 25, 2020Miscellaneous

     

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