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27 January 2021 Notes on a crisis: Why we have not yet found a way to mourn loss on this scale Perhaps the only thing worse than submerging yourself too deeply in other people’s sorrow is to not feel it at all.  Last April I became obsessed with numbers. Death tolls, transmission rates, hospital figures, risk. I was living in New York City, the epicentre of the pandemic, where if you didn’t hear sirens you might hear birdsong on wide, empty avenues once choked with cars. In midtown Manhattan even the skyline had changed. After the offices closed and the wealthy retrea...

When my mother had her eggs frozen Letters On Monday, the same day that the government was refusing to commit to a temporary extra £1,000 a year for recipients of universal credit, Dido Harding and David Williams, permanent secretary at the health department, confirmed that the same government has been paying £1,000 a day in fees to up to 900 test-and-trace consultants from Deloitte. I assume they subscribe to Jonathan Sumption’s view that some lives are less valuable than others. Pete Rosser Wakefield, West Yorkshire • Is it possible that the compiler of Wordsearch (18...

Letters Universal credit | Southern English breakfast? | Winter freezes | Goosegrass The winter of 1947 saw eggs freezing inside the pantry, writes William Burgess. Photograph: Miroslav Pesek/Getty Images/iStockphoto The winter of 1947 saw eggs freezing inside the pantry, writes William Burgess. Photograph: Miroslav Pesek/Getty Images/iStockphoto Thu 21 Jan 2021 12.47 EST Last modified on Thu 21 Jan 2021 12.49 EST On Monday, the same day that the government was refusing to commit to a temporary extra £1,000 a year for recipients of universal credit, Dido Harding and David Williams, permane...

IAN BIRRELL: Deborah James, 39, is a deputy head teacher, a mother of two and an inspiration to many since her bowl cancer diagnosis. Yet her life has been deemed less valuable than others.

Cambridge Union announces term card for Lent 19 January 2021 The Cambridge Union have announced their term card for Lent. One debate, on whether judges make better law than politicians, will see two former Supreme Court Justices, David Neuberger and Jonathan Sumption go head-to-head, while former Home Secretary Amber Rudd will be in conversation Craig Oliver, David Cameron’s Director of Communications, on 9th March. Union President, Freddie Fisk, has explained that, ‘as in Easter 2020, all our events this term will be online and open to all: you don’t need Union membership to attend, as...