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The Year of Living Distantly: As Brightness Falls from the Air will Celebrity Survive?
Bonnie Greer muses on how lockdown and social distancing may be making us more remote from the neediness of the famous.
Britain's Chernobyl: COVID-19 and the Cost of Lies
Hardeep Matharu finds echoes of the nuclear explosion that helped end the Soviet Union and the UK's response to COVID-19, which has resulted in one of the highest Coronavirus death rates in the world.
In a Life and Death Crisis, Will the British People Finally Wake-Up to the Reality of Boris Johnson?
Musa Okwonga explains why, despite the Government's objectively scandalous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, those in the UK remain broadly supportive of the Prime Minister.
Stay Alert. Take Back Control. Don't Blame Us
Mike Buckley argues that the UK Government's apparently confusing 'Stay Alert' messaging is actually carefully calibrated to wash their hands of blame.
REVIEW: Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans - 'Heartbreaking Genius of Staggering Over-Simplification'
Rupert Read and Deepak Raghani lament the film's fatalism and argue that there is a 'managed descent' from our current dangerous energy dependencies.
Nerd Immunity and the COVID-19 Infodemic: Contagious Conspiracies
Our Secret Scientist looks why Coronavirus conspiracy theories have gone viral, and suggests new ways we can vaccinate ourselves against disinformation.
Dangerous and Subversive – The Government's New 'Stay Alert' COVID-19 Messaging
Rebecca Welshman detects a disturbing subtext which echoes Boris Johnson's Churchillian rhetoric over the pandemic while shifting blame away from his administration.
Immunology Pioneer's Legacy Threatened by Coronavirus Lockdown
While the Jenner Institute is at the centre of the search for a COVID-19 vaccine, David Hencke explains how a museum dedicated to Edward Jenner is threatened because of the lockdown.
