This COVID-19 lockdown period heightens the risk of domestic violence.

Perpetrators as well as victims are more invisible. And while help is still available, accessing it is more difficult. Bystanders like friends and neighbours now have a bigger role to play.

Support services are reporting a significant rise in the number of cases, and the acts are becoming more violent in this time of crisis.

So how to keep domestic violence ‘in view’? How can accountability be maintained?

Restrictions are easing but we still can’t relax. The Covid virus has taken its toll on mental health and the future is uncertain. So public health messages need to walk the line between calming our fears while being honest about the risks. This conversation looks at how best to reduce fear and anxiety. And if a Covid vaccine is developed quickly how can we make it accessible to everyone and reassure those worried about the safety of vaccines?

Are we losing our ability to write well and is it because we don’t follow the rules? Professor Steven Pinker says loosen up, rules are made to be broken. But he takes aim at writing which confuses rather than informs . Why is it so difficult to read the writing of lawyers, academics and bureaucrats? The techniques of classic style are a good start for improving the quality of writing.

The partition of India, after the British left, in 1947, triggered a huge and violent mass migration. More than a million people died. The trauma and legacy of this event lives on today.

Our economy is locked down because of the Coronavirus and it’s a similar story around the world. When will the clouds lift and the global economy recover from this virus? The former Bank of England Governor Lord Mervyn King says policy-makers are working in unchartered waters. He says governments must make decisions in a time of radical uncertainty.

Digital technology has transformed universities.

It’s now an expectation, not a bonus, that they offer the latest technologies: around the clock access to educational resources, an intuitive platform for discussion, cloud collaboration and knowledge exchange, recorded lectures on demand.

But is it working?

Medical scientists are hard at work trying to find effective treatments for COVID 19.  They’re on a steep learning curve. How does this new virus work? What’s the best way to treat it? And how can we reduce the rate of transmission? Join a panel of medical experts on the frontline.

Internet algorithms are dividing us, not bringing us together. The assumptions, predictions, and generalisations they make about us are not value neutral or apolitical. Robert Elliott Smith talks to Paul Barclay about the inherent prejudice of algorithms.

What as the Goddess of Smallpox to do with eradicating this disease in China and India? It turns out: almost everything.

These countries with similar epidemiological, socioeconomic, and demographic conditions have experienced strikingly different levels of containment. And that’s because China worked with existing believes and traditions when the officials introduce a new vaccine – and India did not.

China's ambition to be a global superpower has taken a hit from the pandemic. China's economic growth has faltered and the Chinese government is under pressure to explain the origins of the virus and its steps to contain the spread. Chinese citizens are also feeling the pain from lockdown, job loss and government surveillance of social media. Will China's one party state emerge from this crisis stronger or weaker?