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Why it’s worth taking a wider look at biarchal cultures

Letter: In places such as Canada, the US, parts of Africa, southern India and Polynesia, biarchal traditions are almost within living memory, says Simon Dawson

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2025

Proto by Laura Spinney review – how Indo-European languages went global

The fascinating story of the ancient words that survive in the mouths of billions of speakers today

The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2025

How Covid left a legacy of distrust and conspiracies

Letters: Dr Aodhan Breathnach says the general overreach of the state during the pandemic led to mistrust, Desmond Hewitt considers evidence and irrationality, and Richard Bunning is concerned by the poison on social media

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2025

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Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream

Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted, says author Laura Spinney

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025

Covid was devastating – why are we pretending it didn’t happen?

A recent book about the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic details a ‘collective forgetting’ of the period. Our lack of Covid reckoning suggests history is repeating itself, writes Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2023

Editorial: Address long COVID as an economic drag

The rearview mirror held up to the 1918 influenza pandemic by a definitive historical account offers unexpected but valuable insights into a problem plaguing the modern era — an alarming workforce shortage.

Tribune News Service · Sep 8, 2022

From backyard punks and bogans to hipsters and 'corporate' shags: The long and short history of the mullet

Masculine and feminine, long and short, functional and high-fashion. The humble mullet can be everything to everyone, and it's back in a big way.

ABC News · Aug 27, 2022

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Reinfection will be part of the pandemic for months to come. Each repeat illness raises the risk of long COVID

The latest Omicron variant BA.5 is fast becoming dominant worldwide, including in New Zealand and Australia. As it continues to surge, reinfection will become increasingly common and this in turn means more people will develop long COVID.

The Conversation · Jul 19, 2022

The power of the spoken word has kept Europe’s old stories alive

Letter: In response to Laura Spinney’s article which argued that the greatest works of literature may be undiscovered, Fiona Collins says not to forget the oral tradition

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3, 2022

The ‘zero-Covid’ approach got bad press, but it worked – and it could work again

The places that chose to pursue elimination suffered less overall. Unfortunately, few had the determination to do so, says science writer Laura Spinney

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2022

Covid vaccines deserve our trust – but big pharma doesn’t

The pandemic has saved the reputation of some pharmaceutical giants whose track records should not be whitewashed, says science journalist Laura Spinney

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2022

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