When one turns away from political news of the moment, drained and exhausted, one ends up watching or listening to news about one's interests: a cricket match podcast, news from the writing world, music news... Or worse still, one ends up watching news from d…
When the first wave of Covid hit, my dreams were full of bats, pangolins, and wet markets, of civets in cages stacked one on top of the other. In these nightmares, drenched in sanitiser, facemasks ma… [+3437 chars]



