I started writing this article at the beginning of the year, before the reality of the COVID-19 global pandemic was really grasped in the UK, despite warnings, with a slow government response (see here, and here, for instance) that was also criticised by the World Health Organisation for its Social…

This article has taken me a lot longer to write than I had hoped. This has been one of the toughest years for me in terms of my mental health, significantly impacting my work and even my ability to communicate. I am trying hard to do all I can to…