During the pandemic, the British government passed the Coronavirus Act 2020 and the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations, both of which restricted the right of assembly and therefore the right to protest. In enforcing these restrictions, ...
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), was the head of the parliamentary communist group in Italy at the time of his arrest by Mussolini’s facist regime in 1926. Sentenced in 1928, Mussolini is reported as saying at his ...
Language has changed under covid. In Britain, the Oxford English Dictionary in July 2020 added a special update to its customary quarterly updates of new words to document the impact of the pandemic on on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
