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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The pandemic has, at least temporarily, devastated the arts sector in the UK. Theatres and cinemas have closed, possibly never to reopen; galleries, museums and libraries have shuttered their doors or limited access, and gigs, ...
While the course of the pandemic in Europe and America has been afforded blanket coverage, its potentially far greater impact on the Global South has received far less attention. Yet in the number of cases ...
After the failure at the pilot phase of the UK government’s first track and trace app, the new ‘NHS covid-19 Track and Trace App’, costing an estimated at £35 million, was launched nationwide on September ...
The moment in history that the covid-19 pandemic crashed in upon, was already one undergoing rapid technological change. The existence of the internet both ensured the rapid global awareness of the virus’ very existence, and ...
By Sadegh Attari The image of lovers separated by a material object like a window or a wall, symbolising a barrier against their consummation of desire—be it physical, emotional, or moral—has been a common trope ...
By David Christie At the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, I found myself, perhaps like everyone else, endlessly speculating on the long-term impact of covid-19. I also found myself struggling to reach even ...
Although the rapid spread of Covid-19 elicited a global health emergency, by August 2020 the economic crisis that has followed in its wake looks likely to have a much broader and more lasting impact. The ...
