TheDrouth
26th April 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic is a global health crisis yet its effects are not felt equally aross the world or throughout societies. Shannon Maree Torrens shows us how inequalities are having particularly devastating effect at this time, and makes the case for urgent change in national and international governance.
24th April 2020
Perpetrating an aura of unreality may be useful, writes Owen Dudley Edwards, in conceiving of the bonds that have connected and codified these island nations... Jsfmboe, Fohmboe and Tdpumboe...
22nd April 2020
In this week’s roundup we broaden the panorama and look beyond the dailies, the websites and the blogs – it seems that the virus is infecting all the forms… from Creative Scotland to Franco 'Bifo' Berardi...
20th April 2020
'I was born again but this time I knew it meant I was dead.'
18th April 2020
In the teeth of the Coronavirus pandemic, politicians and pundits insist that ‘we’re all in it together’. Yet as deaths climb, it is all too clear that equality in infection does not translate to equality in recovery. In this clear-eyed report by Human Rights researcher and advocate Shannon Torrens, we look to Syria, where this dynamic is set to play out on a truly awful scale.
15th April 2020
Hankering after exceptionalism, and determining the relation between community and immunity -or is Corona virus just a losers conspiracy -all in this week's round-up of Pandemical Discourses.
7th April 2020
Pandemical Discourses 4: weekly digest- Can you really see the whole world through your window?