Past pandemics, fear, dread and hope
In 1890, when he was still at school in Harrow, Winston Churchill wrote a poem
Afterword
As Eva Gómez-Jiménez and Michael Toolan explain in the Introduction to this book, high economic inequality has,
Is the cure worse than the disease? The most divisive question of 2020
In 1968, at the height of the last great influenza pandemic, at least a million people worldwide died
How many more will be dead by Christmas?
In the week after the schools went back in England and Wales, an extra 538 people died (77 a day).
Why are coronavirus rates rising in some areas of England and not others?
Growing alarm has been expressed over the rising numbers of people who are testing positive for COVID-19 in the UK.
Everything, almost everywhere, is slowing down
Long before the 2020 pandemic swept the world, almost everything was already slowing down.
Coronavirus: why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers?
It is a conundrum. For much of the past two months, many people have been convinced that mortality associated with COVID-19 would rise as the number of people testing positive with the disease increased. But this has not happened so far.
Slowing Down: Has this Been the Worst Pandemic in Britain in Living Memory?
If you are a little older than I am, then you may well remember worse pandemics than that of 2020.
COVID-19: The rise in destitution and inequality in the UK
On July 8th 2020 the Treasury released a document titled “Impact of COVID-19 on working household incomes: distributional analysis as of May 2020”.
Geography and the Shifting Ratios of Inequality – University, A levels and GCSEs in 2020
Why should the exam debacle of 2020 matter to Geographers?
Generational change: breaking the silence of the old
The COVID-19 crisis has coincided with worldwide Black Lives Matter protests
So what do we know now about Covid-19 in the UK?
It need not have arrived first in Europe in Italy. The disease could have arrived elsewhere on this continent first, and it could have arrived much earlier than it did.
The Geography of Slowdown: The End of The Great Acceleration – Keynote Address
Great economic inequalities will be hard to sustain during and following slowdown.
Rule Britannia: from Empire to Brexit to Covid-19
It’s a pity that in early 2020 the Conservative party and its leader were not more alert. Greek scholar Boris Johnson should have known that hubris – excessive pride and boasting – annoys the Gods
Slowing Down: Better Policies for Better Lives
The human world is slowing down and has been for some time. It has been slowing in many ways, and this can be seen most easily in OECD (mostly richer) countries.