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THE UK’S POPULATION HAS BECOME SIGNIFICANTLY KINDER OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS, STUDY SHOWS The UK public has been showing more kindness to one another as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, a newly commissioned study from Christian Aid shows. The poll, conducted by Savanta ComRes, shows a significant increase in the number of people who are reaching out to strangers and offering help to those in need. The poll, which surveyed 2,090 UK adults online ... found that 27 per cent were writing more notes to people they don’t see often, and 25 per cent are saying hello to strangers in the street more than they did before. In addition, the poll found that people have more compassion for what is going on overseas, with two fifths (41 per cent) of the public saying they worry about what is happening in the world more than before the Covid crisis ... When broken into age categories, 18 to 24-year-olds showed the highest percentage of increased worry at 46 per cent, compared to 45 to 54-year-olds at 37 per cent. Chine McDonald, Christian Aid’s head of community fundraising and public engagement, responded ... ‘Many of us will be glad to see the back of 2020 ... But our survey shows these ... experiences have had some positive impact on the levels of compassion that people feel. Premier
BOOZING UP BY 50% SINCE FIRST COVID LOCKDOWN The pandemic has polarised [England’s population] into teetotallers and binge drinkers. Record numbers of people have been drinking more than five bottles of wine a week since the first national lockdown was imposed, figures published by Public Health England reveal. Almost one in 20 people are drinking more than 50 units of alcohol per week. This is about 50 per cent higher than in March, when the figure was about one in 30. But the proportion of people who did not drink rose from 34.7 per cent to 41.3 per cent between March and September. Official guidance states that men and women should not drink more than 14 units of alcohol a week. The Times
Charities and professional bodies are concerned that the second wave of the coronavirus is tipping more people into homelessness as the recession bites, more jobs are lost and rent arrears accumulate. The government won praise at the start of the pandemic for ... the initiative Everyone In, when all rough-sleepers and those who could not safely selfisolate were moved into temporary ... accommodation. One of the biggest challenges now facing local authorities is the ability to move those people into permanent and secure housing... Government figures show that, at the end of June, 98,300 homeless households were ... in temporary accommodation. Church Times
THE WORLD MAY FACE SOMETHING ‘WORSE’ THAN COVID-19 UNLESS IT CHANGES DIRECTION, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK WARNS There may be more pandemics in the future unless mankind learns how to be a good steward of the Earth, the Archbishop of York has warned. In an online new year’s service, Archbishop Stephen Cottrell said he was ‘hoping and praying that 2021 will be an improvement on 2020’ but that he feared there could be something worse in store than Covid-19. He said he was looking back at the past year with thanksgiving but ‘also great anguish and sorrow for the horrors that engulfed our world and continue to challenge us’. In his sermon, the archbishop also linked the outbreak of Covid-19 to man’s ‘mistreatment of the planet’. ‘Even as we try to get Covid-19 under control, war and famine still ravage our world, and our dependence on fossil fuels and our inability to wake up to the damage it is doing to our planet set other clocks ticking which make the security of our world ever more fragile,’ he said. He said that humans needed to ‘learn how to be stewards of the Earth’. Christian Today
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