What should Britain’s memorial to the Covid pandemic look like? | Eddie Blake

Erecting a monument alone wouldn’t be sufficient – after the first world war, whole villages were built in remembranceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMemorials aim to be an eloquent last word on an event. A key quality is that they resist change: they attempt to fix for us an abiding sense of what exactly has happened. They can be many things: columns, tombs, plaques, cenotaphs, village halls, even housing. But who are they for? The people who suffer