This October marks Black History Month (BHM), a moment in the academic calendar where universities (hopefully) offer a series of events to celebrate and commemorate Black life. Whilst the offerings…

Introduction Is the Covid-19 pandemic a social ‘watershed moment’, or one that mainly accelerates existing trends, or one of temporary or even permanent trend reversal – or perhaps some combination…

Most of us have an opinion about cars. By and large, we don’t have a problem with them or we think they are, in a nutshell, one of the main…

“Fools,” said Bismarck, “Say they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by other people’s experience”[1]. The British military historian and theorist B.H. Liddell Hart began his short and thought-provoking…

The Conservatives have often been accused of being driven by an ideology that serves the interest of dominant elites rather than those who need the most help. For example, despite…

The world has dramatically changed in response to COVID-19 and along with it, our definitions of health or illness. The relative speed of these changes—in contrast to most social changes…

There are numerous stories regarding how disabled people are being ignored during the current pandemic, such as the lack of testing of disabled people in care homes, ventilators usually provided…

In June 2020, I released a new report from a qualitative project with perinatal women in England during the England lockdown of spring 2020, listening to their accounts of having…

Isolation put on the table the discussion regarding access to rights, to essential goods, to water, electricity, and housing as part of an integral right to health[i]. At first, the…