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Businesses are used to being prepared for a disaster and most will have had a well-rehearsed continuity plan in place in case one struck. But even the best plan couldn’t have effectively anticipated the wholesale overnight shift to home working that Covid-19 has caused. “As a result,” Morgan Wright, chief security adviser at cybersecurity firm …

Monday I’m a nurse on an inpatient psychiatric ward in an inner-city hospital. Our patients have a variety of mental health difficulties, and are mostly at the beginning of their recovery journey. I tend to work three days a week because shifts are 14 hours long. After morning handover, I check medication for a patient …

The essential ingredients of happiness are having someone to love, something to do and something to look forward to. Great aphorisms have many fathers; I have seen this one attributed to Kant, Aristotle and Mae West, which is a decent line-up for a fantasy dinner party. Having someone to love and something to look forward …