There are still five million adults – around one in ten – who are not online. Twice as many lack the skills and confidence to navigate the online world effectively.
A deep reservoir of community and contribution, obscured in normal times, has been uncovered by our present situation.
Increasingly there is a recognition that the little platoons can alleviate a range of modern social ills.
The Jo Cox Loneliness Commission seeks to change lives across the country.
Any comprehensive attempt to measure the ways in which life has got better, would also have to account for the things that have got worse.
Loneliness is a killer, but the absence of solitude deadens the mind.