With over 1.1 million Brits describing themselves as ‘lonely,’ the issue has quickly become a silent epidemic across the country. Just last month, the UK’s loneliness minister Tracey Crouch promised to leave ‘no stone unturned’ to eradicate the growing problem . And now, coffee chain Costa has introduced a new initiative to help tackle the epidemic.
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I woke on Tuesday at 4am and could hardly breathe. I was sweating (and, post-menopausal that I am, I never sweat) and racked with worry. I grabbed my hair, put my head in my hands, and said out loud, ‘What am I doing? What was I thinking?’