lockdown
Understanding Covid needs open minds – and vigorous debate
After a career as a scientist and clinical academic, I have been struck by how often they (we!) have very…
The online museums you’ll never want to leave
‘We don’t talk about the war.’ Yet those of my generation and older reference it daily. The coronavirus is an…
My Japanese toilet has made me a lockdown hero
Compared with every other household chore, progress in bum-wiping has been glacially slow. It’s only in living memory that schools…
Dear Mary: How can I self-isolate without people bothering me on Zoom?
Q. Caught in Switzerland as the ski resort shut down around my ears, and feeling like a walking health hazard,…
I’m recovering – but I glimpsed the coronavirus cliff edge
So I’ve had the virus. Or rather, I think I have. Ordinary mortals can no longer get tested by the…
A note to fellow lockdown lethargics
Strange times, these. Dull and unsettling in equal measure. Much of life feels as though it is stuck in some…
What will a coronavirus 'exit strategy' look like?
At the daily press briefings of senior ministers, the medical and the scientific advisers, there is a reluctance to talk…
Had the entire village population been wiped out since last week?
With my signed and dated laissez-passer in my pocket, I trotted down to the village to see if I could…
