Infection rates have risen sharply across Europe, prompting warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO). On Saturday, Dr. Hans Kluge, WHO regional director, told the BBC that unless measures were tightened across Europe (with regards to mask-wearing and Covid-19 passes for venues) then 500,000 more deaths may be experienced by spring next year. These new…
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Outpost presents: ‘Uninhabited’- Eleanor Rodwell
Lockdown changed the concept of home radically for everybody. In some ways it might never be the same. The relationships between our bodies, our lives, and each other were all shifted into another paradigm. Amid these changes, Norwich-based artist Eleanor Rodwell was working on her recent project Uninhabited which featured in residence at Outpost Studios…
Arts
Theatre’s Intermission is Over
I describe myself as a theatre kid without the talent that most theatre kids possess. I adore everything about a trip to the theatre, I nearly exclusively listen to show tunes, and I collect all my theatre trip programmes. If I had a lick of talent, I would have been the most unbearable kid growing…
Features
The Highs and Lows of Lockdown Hobbies
Hello September. As we head into the Autumn semester, the first lockdown seems like a distant memory now. What isn’t a distant memory, however, are the ridiculous number of new hobbies I tried throughout the last year and a half. I think we’d all love to say we used our time in lockdown productively and…
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Lockdown changed the way I wear makeup
I started wearing makeup to school when I was 14. I’d wake up super early, sneak into my parent’s bedroom and steal my mom’s foundation and BB cream (neither of which were my colour, by the way). This became a ritual. Only interrupted by my mother slowly realising her makeup supplies were dwindling in volume…
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Radio saved me during lockdown
The pandemic has helped loneliness mutate into a pandemic of its own. Isolating has become a normalised part of our lives, especially with the aftermath of the dreaded ping looming around all of us. We have become used to not seeing those we care about. Many have grown used to the loneliness that isolating brings….
Features, Interview
Ask a Nun: Talking to the Sisters about Anger, Fear, and the Pandemic
Last year, all six sisters living in St Andrew’s Lewisham caught Covid-19. Their ages range from 46 to 83 years old. Everyone survived, though each of the women experienced different symptoms. I meet two of them on a Friday, double-jabbed and in a home newly-opened to visitors. They welcome me warmly on a hot but…
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19 July lifting of restrictions ignores the unvaccinated section of the population
As 19 July bears closer and closer, cases and hospitalisations are rising. Although we will never be in the position the government was in last March and as such, we will never be able to understand those pressures of making decisions which could affect many peoples’ lives. With that being said, there is no denying…
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Covid lockdown restrictions to be lifted on July 19th
Today (July 5) Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that Covid restriction rules are set to be officially lifted from July 19th – otherwise dubbed as ‘Freedom Day’. This comes after the initial date of June 21 fell through amidst efforts to contain the spread of the delta variant last month. The update will see…
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