how to mine lockdown for laughs

Micky Overman Can live comedy ever succeed under lockdown? A comedian’s perfect set grows out of the months they’ve spent listening to the reactions at previous gigs, fine-tuning pauses and…

Domestic Abusers Exploit Technology as a Weapon During Lockdown

Click here to read the full article. The coronavirus pandemic has driven much of daily life – work, school, socializing – online. Unfortunately, perpetrators of violence against women and girls…

Online shoppers have lost millions to fraud during lockdown: ‘Enormous vulnerability’

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6 tips for throwing a lockdown birthday party that’s actually fun

From Cosmopolitan So your birthday (or a mate’s) is rolling around, but – agh – we’re still socially distancing! Once you’ve allowed yourself a hot second to feel blue that…

Wealthy Writer Who Got Through Lockdown by Tripling Her Order of Fresh Flowers Stokes Outrage

REUTERS Why didn’t we think of this? With the Harrods Food Hall closed, a nanny blocking up one of the two spare bedrooms in her expensive London home, and being…

In Kashmir, military lockdown and pandemic combined are one giant deadly threat

Kashmiri commuters at an Indian military checkpoint in the city of Srinagar, July 17, 2020. Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images COVID-19 is taking a terrible toll worldwide. But in the…

Credit card spending fell 50% at start of lockdown

Credit cards spending dropped by nearly half at the start of lockdown as people played safe with their finances and shunned big purchases. A total of £8.7bn was spent on…

‘My uncle was scammed three times in ten days during lockdown’

Over the course of the lockdown, according to Action Fraud some £4.6 million had been stolen Lockdown is a lonely time for my widowed 83-year-old uncle. By nature gregarious and…