Meghan Tinsley and Neema Begum On 28th April, Boris Johnson, recently released from hospital and still visibly weakened from COVID-19, led [...]
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Disrupting transmission: what the coronavirus crisis tells us about the geography of the economy
Andrew Leyshon The exact moment when it began to dawn on the UK population that the Covid-19 crisis was not just [...]
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COVID-19 shows that we need to rethink dying at home
Renske Visser “Too many people are dying in hospital against their wishes” reads an article headline in the Guardian from 2010. [...]
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Race, intersectionality and Covid-19
Ashlee Christoffersen The disproportionate impacts of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the UK (both within and [...]
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When State Racism and Austerity Meet the Pandemic: The Death of a Syrian Refugee in Hotel Detention
Smina Akhtar Several newspapers including the National reported that on Tuesday 5 May 2020 Adnan Olbeh, a 30 year old refugee [...]
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It could happen here
Sophie Harman It couldn’t happen here. A one-off event, at first as big as the 2008 financial crisis, and then equal [...]
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Coronavirus and changing conditions for crime
Jennifer Fleetwood, John Lea, Svenja Bromberg and Theo Kindynis “Provisional data from police shows a fall in overall crime, during this [...]
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Who Makes and Who Benefits: CEPI and the Global Effort for Covid19 Vaccine?
Ishupal Singh Kang “New vaccines for a safer world”, declares the homepage of The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI, in [...]
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Prisoners of space: how the Covid-19 lockdown highlights inequalities in ageing
Camilla Lewis, Chris Phillipson, Tine Buffel, Patty Doran and Sophie Yarker Older people have borne the brunt of deaths from [...]
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Decolonising Safeguarding in a Pandemic: Who has the power to define risk and harm?
Linnea Renton and Leona Vaughn The world is watching as the COVID-19 pandemic acts as a relentless revealer of existing social [...]
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