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  The first flurries came on Valentine’s Day, a steady, wispy snowfall, like a socially distanced blizzard. A brutal wave of Covid-19 had just crested in the college town of Denton, about 60km north of Dallas, in Texas. It’s a good thing my daughters, Grace, who is 12, and Lydia, who is nine, study remotely, because we were inundated with “Covid on campus” emails all winter, single-case notifications eventually snowballing into aggregated reports of “a few individuals”. The fatalistic Texan approach to the pandemic was summed up by a porter I interviewed outside...

lives in London. She works as cabin crew for an international airline but has been furloughed for more than seven months. Like many people in Britain, she needed to top up her income with a second job, so she became Psychic Sylvia Recently I was having one of those moments that I was glad my ex couldn’t see. I was sitting in the torn dressing gown I got from Primark six years ago. It smelled of biscuits and ham. (How it smelled like biscuits and ham when I couldn’t remember eating any biscuits and ham, I’ve no idea.) I was 34 and working as a telephone psychic. I had just cau...

Yeah, it’s the new year! Twenty twenty-one arrived with a whimper, bringing with it a nervousness that none of us could ever have envisioned. But we are all grateful nonetheless, and praying that better times are not far behind. Here in Saudi Arabia the weather has turned chilly. It can get down to 10 or 12 degrees in the evenings now. So the jumpers I normally keep for my trips home are out, and I will wear one most evenings until March. I was on the brink of a visit home in March last year when international travel to Saudi Arabia came to an abrupt halt, thanks to Covid-19. At the time...