Experts’ tips on surviving – even enjoying – life under lockdown

Missing the pub? Invite friends to online cocktails. That’s just one tip from our panel of experts on how to make the most of enforced downtime

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Henry Porter, novelist and Vanity Fair editor
One of the nastier aspects of the pandemic is that it turns your friends and all that you do to show them affection – hug and kiss; share meals and drinks – into a deadly threat. And yet, in this appalling moment, we need our friends more than ever, and it is probably true that our immune systems do, too. Isolation is bad for a species addicted to social intercourse.

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