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  • Views on life in the continuing crisis – part five

    ‘PLEASE consider wearing a face mask in this shop …’ I did consider and I did wear one, but no one else came to the same conclusion. Apparently, the pandemic is over. In late February, […]

    May 3, 2022Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on life in the continuing crisis: part four

    WHEN my yoga teacher suggested returning to in-person classes from September, I was pleased to think of sharing the experience ‘live’ again. His email encouraged booking soon as places were limited, and I assumed he […]

    October 18, 2021Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on life in the continuing crisis: part three

    BORIS Johnson’s star has been, to some inexplicably, largely in the ascendant during the pandemic, most recently explained by the successful vaccine rollout, despite any visible connection between him and it. A for-once inspired appointment, […]

    June 27, 2021Miscellaneous

     
  • Views on life in the continuing crisis: part two

    WE’VE just passed 23 March, the day the first UK lockdown began in 2020. The charity Marie Curie named it a ‘Day of Reflection’, and encouraged a minute’s silence at noon and distanced candlelight vigils […]

    March 29, 2021Miscellaneous

     
  • 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

     

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