Angela Ritch
How Covid-19 exacerbates the “parent gap”
‘Many working-class parents are ill-equipped to prepare their children for the extra two years of education that they probably never experienced themselves’
Stop asking children how they feel
‘Why are children so unhappy? Or, why are they feeling so unhappy, which may be a different question altogether?’
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts