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COVID -19 by the Policy Institute at King's College London is indicative of the hostility of an upper middle-class layer in academia to the class issues posed starkly by the pandemic. That COVID-19 is a “poor man's disease” which has hit the working class hardest—driven into unsafe workplaces under the policy of herd immunity—is a verifiable fact. It led the British Medical Journal to accuse the world's governments of “social murder” in their response to the pandemic. Its editorial, “Covid-19: Social murder, they wrote—elected, unaccountable, and unrepentant”, drew attentio...

Social and economic changes have pushed people into ‘reluctant individualism’ Illustration Dom McKenzie Illustration: Dom McKenzie/The Observer Illustration Dom McKenzie Illustration: Dom McKenzie/The Observer Sun 28 Feb 2021 04.00 EST Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 06.48 EST First, the good news. Britons see inequality as a major problem and divide broadly along traditional political lines in their attitudes towards it. Then, the bad news. Britons are also inclined to see inequalities as driven by individual behaviour as much as by social policy or structural factors. So suggests Unequ...