Where the pandemic is central to The Pull of the Stars, in Hamnet it is a dark presence looming over the book, just as the bubonic plague hung over England throughout Shakespeare’s life, beginning in the fourteenth century as the ‘Black Death’. But it strikes the Agnes family like lightning, …
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I am sitting in a hospital reception and my breath is clouding my glasses. A few minutes ago, I had been running through wet streets late for my date. As the doctors and nurses pass by on the way to work, I am aware that I don’t look particularly well. …
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Details of exactly how this international dimension will work are now being negotiated in parliament. So far, however, the law has not fully addressed the global promise of rich countries to provide $ 100 billion (£ 80 billion) a year in climate finance to poorer countries, Nordbo says. The fair …
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Sammy Hagar says that he is willing to die, and that others die too, so that the economy returns to normal. In that sense, he says he would be willing to play at a concert even before there is a COVID-19 shot, “if it’s declining and appears to be fading,” …
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