Covid and Time
To what degree has the Pandemic altered our perception of time? For many the sense of time progressing has ceased, replaced by an ‘endless’, looping, repetitive sense of time. How widespread is this feeling and ...
Debates
Here you find summaries of our sessions, written by our founder David Christie
Love in the Time of Covid
Relationships have changed considerably in the time of Covid-19. For many, this has been in a positive direction, with roughly 20% of people saying that their relationships with their spouses, children, or neighbours have improved ...
Covid and disability
Two-thirds of the people who have died from Covid-19 have had disabilities. Despite this chilling statistic, the impact of the pandemic on disabled people as a group is rarely acknowledged, at best treated as an ...
Covid & Childhood
Although children face fewer health risks directly from covid-19, it is arguable that their lives have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. In the UK, and much of the rest of the world, it is ...
COVAX and Global Vaccination
As soon as effective vaccines began to emerge from the laboratories of pharmaceutical companies, probably the most important issue facing the world became how to ensure that access to life-saving medicine was available to all ...
Impact of Covid-19 on Transport and Travel
One of the most immediate and striking impacts of the pandemic was the sudden curtailment of our rights and opportunities to travel beyond our own homes and immediate localities. Whilst lockdown’s restrictions are temporary, what ...
Coronavirus & Historiography – How will the history of Coronavirus be written?
How will the history of coronavirus be written? Will it be recorded as a footnote to a larger story, or a profound ‘turning point’ in the economic, political, social and cultural history of the human ...
The Vaccine – is it all Over?
On 9 November 2020, BioNTech/Pfizer announced that they had developed a vaccine which was effective in preventing 90% of people from contracting covid-19. At the conclusion of Phase 3 trails on 43,000 people, they declared ...
Lockdown redux
When Boris Johnson declared the first lockdown on 23rd March 2020, the United Kingdom was still marching in step, with the peoples of all four constituent nations subject to the same restrictions aimed at preventing ...
Legitimacy, Trust and Social Cohesion under Covid
To mitigate the spread of coronavirus, governments across the globe have rushed through legislation, or enacted emergency powers, granting them unprecedented control over the lives of their subject peoples. Whilst, even from the outset, some ...