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Laptop poverty must end - even if we have to do it ourselves.
One of the greatest lies of the global pandemic - apart from perhaps early rumours that alcohol consumption killed all traces of Covid-19 - is that coronavirus is some sort of great leveller. Time and again it is implied that the virus does not discriminate beyond health factors such as old age and pre-existing conditions, and that we are all therefore affected in the same way. Although the first bit is true, the suggestion everyone is impacted equally is as ridiculous as claiming we were all equal to begin with.
Navy man on mission to help out
A former Royal Navy engineer is using his skills to help children struggling without laptops while their schools are shut.
Phil Macrae, 33, now runs a computer repair workshop and is devoting his spare time to refurbishing old devices donated after he appealed on Facebook.
In just five weeks he has spent more than 350 hours rebuilding 250 second-hand computers which have been given to more than 30 schools in the West Midlands.
He travelled all over the world in the Navy and completed two operational tours in Afghanistan before returning to the UK last year.
Mr Macrae then set up his computer repair firm called The Speedy Bear and works out of a modest annexe of a house in Coventry.