The Teaching Virus

Or, How Covid-19 showed us we’re still living in the 19th Century

“Going to Work” L S Lowry 1943 (This work is in the public domain because it was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee of the UK government, and so crown copyright, which expires after 50 years, applies.)

“A man mun work!” A truism (one of the useless children of hindsight) that will sooner or later be uttered by some lackwit in any of those gritty, working-class period dramas where the characters all work “at t’mill”, or “down t’pit” or “on t’docks”. Generally by some stern patriarch in a waistcoat to his fiery Socialist…