EDITORIAL

by Hardeep Matharu

The Interregnum

In the very early days of the pandemic in 2020, I remember seeing news stories of people in masks queuing in socially distanced squares marked on the floor of a market in Italy. It was strange and interesting, I thought. And then I moved on.

I sometimes think back to that time for its surrealism.

The Coronavirus had not yet arrived in Britain, but it swiftly did. When that happened, I thought how ridiculous – and human – it had been for me to not think that those pictures had any relevance to my life. That, for whatever reason, it wouldn’t be happening here.

I thought of it again while editing this edition of Byline Times.