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A word about chaos and poverty. My mum was a nursery school teacher working, particularly in her earlier years, in a very deprived area of the city. Chaos was, indeed,

One of my very favourite perceptual illusions. Quite famous, so you may well have seen it. But it still deserves a minute to contemplate in these times. /1 Square A

Worth saying again. When the generation that bore me talked about the 'Blitz spirit', it wasn't in the ability to withstand an immediate horrific short-term event. It was the long-term

Here's a great thing about the arts that everyone involved in the arts knows right away. The arts is electricians, and cleaners, and painters, and set builders, and drivers, and

The latest sleazy attack on front line staff trying to keep their morale up, and patients alive, in the face of danger. 'TikTok judging'. Apparently if medical stff don't shut

Why a pandemic isn't a war:1. This “enemy” has “declared war” everywhere. In all parts of the world, at the same time. Yet no human has declared it on anyone

This piece on the carelessness of crisis metaphor by the ever-admirable @MarinaHyde prompts two reflections - one a book, the other on those elements our country's past that might provide