Jo Knowsley
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COVID-19
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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COVID-19
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
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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Travel
A visit to the City of the Dead
Things are tough during this time of Covid, tourists to Ostia Antica are even fewer than usual… The ginger cat…
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COVID-19
Whatever happened to the Covid generation?
Lockdowns, hysteria, uncertainty and economic turmoil have all led to a decrease in pregnancies worldwide... Wherever I turn in my…
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Travel
The Covid motorcycle diaries
Should I stay or should I go… A long-haul motorbike trip across Europe to Montenegro has been high on my…
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Travel
Escape to the Country – or the Road to Nowhere?
The thought of running a pub in the Australian outback is strangely appealing during these weird times… The news has…
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