The International
By Joseph Eyre As the Covid-19 pandemic passes the grim milestones of a year of devastation and two million deaths, the disruption caused and its implications on the future are becoming more clear. From the way we work, to action on climate and the economy, it’s fair to say that the post-Covid world will be […]
By Jude Holmes This year, the world has appeared to simply stop. Throughout the pandemic, the scientific advancement on everyone’s lips has understandably been the search for a vaccine as many labs have been turned over to cope with Covid testing and antibody research. But the world continues to turn, and wherever there is motion, […]
By Loui Marchant Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, human rights groups were warning of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in refugee camps on the Aegean islands. For much of the past decade, the Greek territory has been at the epicentre of the ongoing European refugee crisis. At the close of 2019, a series of horrifying reports […]
By Jude Holmes In a world consumed with the daily threat of infection rates and the hunt for disease control solutions, technology has come in to save the day. Drones delivered supplies to Scottish Isles, around half of all NHS medical appointments took place by phone (compared to 14% pre-lockdown), and over 750,000 people signed […]
In this series of articles, The International explores the ways in which Covid-19 has changed the course of our planet’s history. In this second piece, our editor-in-chief Adam Bennett examines how the climate crisis has been reshaped by the pandemic. “Today, dolphins can be seen swimming in the newly-clear waters of Venice. As people stay […]
In this series of articles, The International explores the ways in which Covid-19 has changed the course of our planet’s history. In this first piece, our editor-in-chief Adam Bennett examines how the debate around inequality, a defining issue of the 21st century so far, has been reshaped by the pandemic. “My savings were non-existent, and […]