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"This is unprecedented in living memory. It is hugely tragic in so many ways but especially in terms of what it has meant and means for many people’s livelihoods and for many businesses." Professor Abhinay Muthoo, Dean of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ in London, comments on the news that output in the UK fell by 20.4 per cent in April compared with the previous month.

Professor David Lambert, a Professor of Caribbean History at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, comments on the bronze statue of Edward Colston, who profited from the Royal African Company’s trade in enslaved men, women and children, being toppled and tossed into the harbour in Bristol.

As Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has announced plans to cut 5,000 jobs, Professor David Elmes of ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Business School and Professor Mike Waterson of the Department of Economics comment on the factors that may have led the company to this decision.

Results of a new survey suggest that over half of the UK population is struggling with sleep problems during lockdown. Here, Dr Nicole Tang from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Sleep and Pain Laboratory in the Department of Psychology comments on how events like the COVID-19 pandemic can disrupt our sleep, while sleep expert Dr Michelle Miller from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Medical School offers some advice on sleeping well during lockdown.

As former US Defence Secretary James Mattis criticises the Trump administration in an article for The Atlantic, Dr Georg Löfflmann of the Department of Politics and International Studies discusses how unprecedented his comments are.