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1. Stay 2 metres away from other customers and staff Keep clear of people on the way to and from the shops, and when inside them as well, if possible. Be patient and take your turn to access goods in fridges and freezers. Some supermarkets are helping to do this by limiting the number of people who can be inside a shop at any given time. When purchasing your shopping, try to keep your distance from shop workers as well. With self-service checkouts and pin pads, you may have no choice but to come into contact with surfaces that have been handled by many people. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth until you have washed your hands. Some stores are providing hand sanitiser, and cleaning shopping trolleys and baskets between customers. … [Read more...] about Shopping during coronavirus: five tips for social distancing

The moon tiger of the novel’s title is the name given to a mosquito coil which burns through the night – just as Claudia’s life also burns out, is purged, is consumed by the passing of time. What most resists the flames is her sorrow over something that never was. Isn’t this true? That the things we most often regret are not those we did, but those we didn’t do. … [Read more...] about From Virginia Woolf to Stephen Hawking: the best books about time

Cardi B delivers lectures on socialism … and spreads misinformation Cardi B has been holding regular live streams that feel like reality show confessionals meet presidential press briefings. The boisterous rants have led many to call Cardi the new president, an epithet she basks in. In the sessions, you can find her lamenting her current diet (“I shouldn’t be eating cereal! I should be in a restaurant eating sushi right now”), calling for expansions of Medicare and unemployment benefits, and accusing celebrities of enjoying easier access to coronavirus tests. All while frequently wearing a bedazzled face mask inside her Atlanta mansion. … [Read more...] about Shaved eyebrows and isolation nudes: how rappers are surviving quarantine

So far more than 700,000 have signed up, including Knight, who returned to England from Australia after the T20 World Cup 10 days ago. “I have a lot of free time on my hands and I want to help as much as I can,” Knight said. … [Read more...] about England cricket captain Heather Knight signs up for NHS volunteer scheme

Many of these experiments don’t work, but Coase’s endeavour should be commended for its creative risk-taking. The five-strong cast perform the parts of more than 20 characters: Clare Perkins plays Clarissa with authority while Guy Rhys inhabits the haunted figure of Septimus Smith, a first world war veteran suffering from shell-shock through which Woolf played out elements of her own psychosis. Clare Lawrence Moody is a particularly strong presence (as Clarissa’s friend, Sally, and tutor, Doris Kilman, among others). Ultimately, though, their multiple voices and personas create a confused cacophony rather than a polyphonic orchestra of inner and outer worlds. … [Read more...] about Mrs Dalloway review – a cacophonous take on Virginia Woolf’s classic