May 2020

‘We are told that “we’re in this together” by people who can afford to wait out the epidemic in the way the aristocrats of old retreated to their estates when the plague arrived in the city. It is more accurate to say that we are, as this edition’s cover puts it, “together, alone”.’


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It’s gonna be a long day with myself

Why am I so hungry? Oh because it’s noon and I’ve been on Twitter for four hours

Bridget Phetasy

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Corona Derangement Syndrome

The virus has driven everyone mad

Rod Liddle

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Heads in the cloud

Life in the age of COVID-19 is connected but unconnected

Sam Leith

Home May 1, 2020

Why ‘housewife’ is no more demeaning than ‘husband’

‘Housewife’ meaning ‘woman in charge of a household’ was also sometimes pronounced ‘husif’. By the 16th century it was worn down to ‘hussy’

Dot Wordsworth

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Climbing the walls

A lockdown challenge in Sri Lanka

A.S.H. Smyth