Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Big Issue

    THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF HOMELESSNESS DURING COVID FROM HEATHROW’S TERMINAL 5

    Nov 29, 2021 4 minutes
    By Liam Geraghty

    The reality of homelessness in an airport bears little resemblance to Tom Hanks in The Terminal. In March 2020, when Covid-19 broke out, Heathrow Airport was home to 200 people who had nowhere else to go.

    Paul Atherton was among them.

    It’s where the activist and journalist had been living for two years, following almost a decade of homelessness in London. And it’s where he would remain in the early days of lockdown as the UK’s largest and busiest airport lay virtually deserted.

    When the pandemic forced a UK lockdown in March 2020, the government acted quickly to launch the Everyone In scheme to protect rough sleepers from the virus.

    More than 37,000 people across the

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Big Issue

    The Big Issue3 min read
    Work
    FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out, has led me to do things I’d never normally do. That plants a seed in your brain, encouraging you to do new things, stay out later, travel here or there to see this or that. Ignoring some of my wilder nights, FOMO is mos
    The Big Issue6 min read
    Liz Carr
    From my appearance most people will think I was born disabled, but I wasn’t [Carr was disabled from age seven, owing to arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, and has used a wheelchair since she was 14]. So I understand what becoming disabled means. Alt
    The Big Issue3 min read
    Sam Delaney Is On The Road
    I’ve never been a morning person. Through good times and bad, whether I’ve been getting up in the dark to attend a job I hated or sleeping in late before a day of leisure, I’ve always found the first few moments of the day really unpleasant. I wake u

    Related Books & Audiobooks