Sublime

In 2019 the Emilia Report (named after England’s first published female poet, Emilia Bassano) analysed coverage of male and female writers and found that women were twice as likely to have their ages referenced – or, in the case of Sally Rooney, her appearance, ‘like a startled deer with sensuous lips’, according to one Swiss critic.

In September 2021, the government announced its long-awaited plan for social care entitled ‘Build Back Better: Our plan for health and social care’, accompanied two months later by a long-awaited White Paper, ‘People at the Heart of Care’, setting out wider plans for reform (HM Government, 2021; DHSC, 2021c).