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What lockdown has taught us about loneliness

‘In 1951, friendless and isolated at college, Sylvia Plath described her loneliness as a “contagion”, “like a disease of the blood”. Almost 70 years on, a different type of contagion has for months separated us all from each other; as restrictions slowly lift and we tentatively begin to re-engage, we have had to confront our… Read More »