Monday 14 June 2021

How COVID-19 exposed the systemic ageism at the heart of Britain

The UK public cares deeply about injustices. In the first few months of 2021, thousands of people took to the streets demanding much-needed social changes, from Black Lives Matter to Kill the Bill protests against the government's proposed new crime legislation, the vigil for Sarah Everard and massive demonstrations against Israel's bombing of Gaza. Why then, haven't the deaths of 138,163 people from coronavirus resulted in the same kind of outpouring of public anger?