To mark the two-year anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, we’re running a week-long series of stories exploring the impact of the pandemic on …
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Generation Covid
To mark the two-year anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, The Face are running series of stories exploring the impact of the pandemic on young people.
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We surveyed the 10-year cohort of young people who slipped into teenagehood and adulthood over two years of Covid – that’s 314 of you, to be exact. …
Generation Covid: The author of the critically acclaimed book Cut Short explains what two pandemic years have done to young people whose lives were …
“We dealt with lockdown by giving up on real language altogether. We just spoke in bleep-bloops and groans to one another, for the entirety of …
“My old man lives in England so he’d get out of lockdown and be able to go get a haircut or go to the pub, and we’d be here, unable to do bugger all …
“I thought: ‘This is the Highlands, it’s so rural and we have such a low population, we won’t get it here.’ But now everyone’s got it.” THE FACE …
“We have more shared interests than differences today. We need to champion that shared struggle as young people in a world beyond pandemic.” THE FACE …
We can’t trust the weather to be onside with our socialising plans. But post-lockdowns, nor, it seems, do we fully trust ourselves. Hello, sunshine! …
Generation Covid: Many girls may never return to school post-pandemic, while globally women lost $800 billion in income in 2020. Natasha Mudhar, …
As the first “post-pandemic” summer beckons, 14 to 23-year-olds reflect on the benefits of isolation and how it changed their lives – sometimes for …
Generation Covid: In the confines of our four walls, the UK’s young people created more subcultures, trends and styles than we thought possible. Over …
