A dog with their owner at a park.

Dogs against loneliness

The number of pets in London doubled during lockdown. Dog ownership increased 84% in 2020 alone. There is now a pandemic puppy phenomenon and thieves are roaming the capital looking to make thousands from...

Studying in a COVID World

March 2020 and panic buying for loo rolls as lockdown began. I made it back home, sat down and, like thousands of other university students, tried to study.   It’s been tough. The assignments have...

How fans affiliate with football

The Staycation London podcast presents Episode 1 "How Fans Affiliate With Football" with Tariq Taylor, Alfie Kaye, Ethan West and Edwin Richardson. https://soundcloud.com/user-11375464/staycation-london-podcast-how-fans-affiliate-with-football/s-cIjbMO09rxf

Football – what I’m missing

Football, for many of us, is way more than ‘just a game’: it’s a way of getting away from day to day troubles. Whether you have an Old Trafford season ticket or turn up...

Bounce Back Better

I have an excuse. I had surgery two months before the first lockdown, sending me into a spiral. What was I going to do? How could I see my physio? And, when would this...

Living on the Isle of Man

Edwin Richardson says you should race over to visit as soon as you can With the pandemic and lockdown, I decamped to my home – very close by – nation that has been living Covid...

My perfect walk

Walking is something I used to do as a means of transportation, as simply the easiest and cheapest way of getting from Point A to Point B. But since Covid has confined us to...

Lockdown changed me for the better

https://youtu.be/RZ_K9TUaUcA Lock down, locked out, locked in. Imagine being 22 then turning 23 in the blink of an eye and spending a year under national restrictions. Being told what to do, where to go and...

Clock ticking, but fully focused

With 38 hours to deadline I’ve four un-started articles and a few to edit. In those hours I must also sleep, and fast – it’s Ramadan you see.   But in extremis I found a...

Pets during and after the pandemic

Fergal Hale-Brown talks to animal welfare officer Kia Newbould-McFarlane about how she started her career, what the pandemic has meant for pets and what the future holds for pandemic puppies https://soundcloud.com/user-869684735/animal-welfare-interview