Jo Knowsley
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COVID-19
All clapped out?
It is now a year since we first stood outside our homes, clapping for carers and banging pots and pans…
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Travel
All hail a secret summer holiday
(with apologies and a tribute to C.S. Lewis) Health Secretary Matt Hancock has booked this year’s summer holidays to Cornwall…
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Who censors who?
Has fear of being branded a conspiracy theorist affected journalistic judgment when reporting on the coronavirus? We’re extraordinary beings, we…
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Journey to my mother
Finding things to do during the third lockdown has proven difficult… First I forensically cleaned the house; next I cooked…
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Welcome to the New Dark Ages
Welcome to the New Dark Ages: a time of chronic bleakness in what is already one of the gloomiest periods…
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We’re merely caged animals in a Covid zoo
Many years ago, in a different lifetime, I decided I’d like to spend some time with lions… Tasked with helping…
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Which fairytale will you choose to believe?
It’s Christmas, a time when the young and innocent still believe in Santa. We shouldn’t tease. Never have so many…
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UK News
MIND THE PAY GAP – it might cost you your marriage
My rival looked up from the pub pool table, glanced at the TV in the corner, then stared intently back…
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The Second Lockdown – and the Christmas Break nobody wanted
The first Covid lockdown heralded a lemming-like rush to buy toilet paper with apocalyptic scenes as shoppers fought over dwindling…
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Covid-19 and the Quiet Revolution
Britain is poised on the brink of revolution. Not since Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas in 1644 have so many been…
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