Feeling overwhelmed by the torrent of news? Author Julia Hobsbawm reveals how she stopped her mind – and smartphone – whirring I’ve been up in the middle of the night lately checking for news of the coronavirus, avidly and anxiously switching between news websites, Twitter, Facebook, and a number of WhatsApp groups.
I don’t mind admitting this has often been at 3am, that hour of sudden waking followed by the dull dread that this situation is real.
Click. Click. Tap, tap on the digital dance floor, moving soundlessly from one corner of the internet to the other. A little voice tells me to stop and breathe calmly to get back to sleep but my mind is now whirring.