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The Year of Living Distantly: A Letter to My Mum
Otto English pens some thoughts to his 89-year-old mother, who he visited this week in the Coronavirus chaos.

The Herd Instinct and 'Herd Immunity': The Etiology of a Bad Idea
The science didn't change – the politics did. Peter Jukes follows an inflammatory and disastrous theory as it spread rapidly through the British body politic.

THE UPSIDE DOWN: Raising Hell – The Long Afterlife of William Blake
John Mitchinson explores the lasting resonance of the works of the English poet and artist who attracted little acclaim during his lifetime.
