Spot On!
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An isolated problem
Food insecurity grows when the sense of community is low. Megan Blake tells how people have stepped up to the challenge. Kora and Ryan are just starting out on …
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Mutual aid
People pull together when times are tough. Governments should let them. Guy Dauncey explains. In the 1870s there was a surge in the numbers of self-help groups in the …
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Time to be unreasonable
Normality: there can be no turning back, says John Barry. Like buses, crises (and the opportunities that can accompany them) seem to come in threes. First, we have Brexit and …
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Learning from the pandemic
Frances Coppola warns that looking back is not the best way to move forward During the Cold War, there was a genre of disaster fiction along the lines of “life …
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Silver linings
Silver linings Nigella Vigoroso-Heck looks forward to perfection “So. Here we are. The end of term. I have been truly humbled by the amount of work that you have put …
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South Africa healthcare workers protest, threaten strike
South African healthcare workers have protested against poor working conditions and urged the government to end corruption in the procurement of coronavirus personal protective equipment. The protesters gathered in Pretoria …
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Local groups step up to lead Beirut blast response
While attention has focused on promises of international aid from a France-led donor conference and a UN appeal, much of the initial help in the two weeks since a massive explosion …
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What fate for the Venezuelan migrants stranded in Peru?
In the fight against COVID-19, Latin America presents a set of important challenges: underfunded healthcare systems, largely informal labor markets, extreme poverty and vulnerability, and a human displacement crisis …
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Food bank donations surged during the pandemic – but look closely at the data and there’s trouble ahead
Food banks in the UK reported that demand had tripled in March this year as the coronavirus lockdown threw millions out of work. Many food banks faced an urgent need for money to buy …
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