This article is part of a series exploring job-hunting in the pandemic and the difficulties that face young people in particular. The views expressed in this article are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect Backbench’s stance as…
This article is part of a series exploring job-hunting in the pandemic and the difficulties that face young people in particular. The views expressed in this article are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect Backbench’s stance as…
2020 has undoubtedly been a very difficult year for most people. While older people have borne the brunt of health impacts from COVID-19, younger people have faced a crisis of their own: job losses and unemployment Increasingly, news outlets are…
As we get further into 2020, the unity that characterised the early stages of lockdown – ‘Clap for the NHS’, anyone? – has generally faded away, and have been replaced by political conflict and division. It wasn’t too long ago…
Surely, this is the biggest U-turn of them all? Last week, in a chaotic and delayed address to the nation, Boris Johnson set out England’s plans to be plunged into lockdown number 2, despite weeks of arguing against it in…
‘We do not care about trying to “control the narrative” and all that New Labour junk and this government will not be run by “comms grid”.’ Dominic Cummings wrote that in January 2020, in his infamous ‘weirdos and misfits’ blog…
The UK has entered a state of Stockholm syndrome. According to Google, this refers to when ‘hostages bond with their captors’ after facing abuse. The public has been quite literally in a state of captivity for months. Told to remain…
Predictably, everyone has been pretty outraged by the new (and now deleted) advert encouraging people to retrain and get a job in ‘cyber’. If you haven’t seen it, the ad (which features both HM government and CyberFirst logos) depicts a…
The 23rd of March feels like such a long time ago, doesn’t it? Now we’re living through October, a strange time where we await our next orders from politicians, and exist in a minefield of testing capacities, R-rates, excess deaths…
The United States remains the worst affected country with the highest number of Covid-19 cases, and the virus shows no signs of leaving. Jails and prisons continue to have large clusters of Covid-19, and frontline workers in correctional facilities continue…