O BRAVE ‘NEW NORMAL’ WORLD: Living with Coronavirus

About the Book

He’s back stronger than ever! But have we conveniently forgotten the furore around the presidential election results and the Capitol riots? Refresh your memory in this book. He may have been resurrected, but many other leaders fell by the wayside during the cataclysmic post-pandemic aftermath. In Britain leadership became a merry-go-round of comings and goings. Elsewhere, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Germany all changed leaders for one reason or another. But Putin, Lukashenko and Xi are still with us - for better or for worse. We should learn from our past, but it seems we don’t. Trump aside, the Middle East conflict has flared up worse than before, and many of the other global conflicts and tensions that are highlighted in this volume are still with us unresolved. All the posturing and platitudes that emanated from the anger surrounding George Floyd’s murder proved as useful to addressing the real issues as someone offering ‘an unreserved apology.’ Meanwhile, the rich get richer and the poor poorer.

About the Author

I was born in Hull in 1950. Having graduated in English at Leeds University, I worked for Newcastle upon Tyne City Libraries for 20 years, where I wrote articles for professional journals as well as giving talks to national conferences and seminars around the country. I then moved into liaison work between councillors, voluntary agencies and the community for various local authorities in the north-east of England until I retired in 2007. My work included writing a revised submission for Newcastle’s New Deal for Communities’ to Central Government which received £50 million funding, and leading a community involvement exercise which led to the establishment of the Sunderland Arc Urban Regeneration Company. As Partnership Manager at South Tyneside, I managed 40 staff in area working, community safety and health and drug action issues within the Borough Council, which was recognized in it achieving its first national Beacon status for neighbourhood working. As a visiting lecturer at the University of Northumbria, I gave talks on health and regeneration, partnership working and community engagement.