It was around mid-October when I likely got covid. I say likely because my test came back negative. However, for a variety of reasons (including what I describe in the paragraph below), and according to the doctors I spoke to, that test was most likely either a false negative, or it was done outside of the narrow time-frame in which tests best work. Anywa...  Read this >>

COVID-related signs are everywhere. From the University I work in to my local gym, it’s impossible to overlook the number of hand sanitizers, all the stickers encouraging people to wear face coverings, and the stickers on floors determining the direction of travel. Of course, these measures serve an important purpose, but I do have a few issues with...  Read this >>

I’m having covid fatigue these days. I’m getting to a point where I lack the energy to feel strongly about the latest UK government mess-up, their latest new ideas on how to put profits before people, on how to overreach and avoid parliament scrutiny. And so on. It’s difficult to sustain feelings of outrage, and there’s so much to ...  Read this >>

For decades, research has been explaining and continues to explain the complex, structural causes of obesity and obesity-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). That is why seeing the hype around Boris Johnson’s latest anti-obesity campaign is so depressing and exhausting. Obesity and diet-related NCDs are determined politically, commercially and ...  Read this >>

Let’s have a look at some of the different subjects constructed by this horribly cruel and incompetent UK government amidst this crisis: The Heroic Worker: Without a reliable system of protecting, testing and contact tracing in place, the first step of ‘reopening the economy’ has been to sacrifice blue collar workers and send them back ...  Read this >>

I am perplexed by the emphasis the Prime Minister put on reopening car showrooms in his last briefing. Many people are facing financial hardship and precarity because of covid and because of the consequences of the government's mismanagement of this crisis. I am therefore wondering if buying a new car is really the top priority on people's minds right now...  Read this >>

There is so much I've been meaning to write about this crisis, but so far everytime I tried, I couldn't put anything down on paper. Thinking about covid confronts me with the magnitude - not just of the pandemic - but of all the failures of our political systems. All that which links together the major ills of the anthropocene, all these connections invad...  Read this >>