An upside to lockdown? It may be updating the idea of fatherhood

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Sometimes it takes a shocker of an event to catalyse social change – and Covid fits the bill

Someone told me this week that you can never start a sentence with the word “than”. “Is that so?” I said. “Because you know, this pandemic is changing our world in more ways than you might think. Than you might ever have thought possible.”

Indeed, Covid-19 has changed so much about our world, though perhaps not the basics of good grammar. And not all of it for the bad. This year, the Upside has already delved into the revival of community, the brilliance of teachers, the environmental positives and the greatness of dogs, volunteers, even neighbours.

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