Lockdown can replicate the circumstances of the original trauma: feelings of powerlessness, loss of control or indeed of feeling trapped or imprisoned. It can feel unbearable.

Although wet markets are not common in the west, industrial livestock farming is – and may carry just as a great a risk.

After paying thousands in insurance premiums over the years, many businesses are being told that their insurance policies do not provide cover for pandemics.

The campaign group We Can’t Consent To This said that at least 60 women have been killed by men who claimed their sexual partners gave consent to the violence that resulted in their deaths.

The convenient taboo of talking about the dead is creating rigid political conformity.

Lockdown could result in businesses being forced to reveal where their “mind and matter” really is.

Freed Voices is made up of people who have experienced immigration detention in the UK, and are now committed to speaking out. Between us, we have lost over 20 years of our lives to detention, and we have written this urgent letter to the Home Secretary.

By Fiona Maida

Aviation co-created the global corona pandemic. And it is destroying our climate too.