JOYCE FEGAN: Time to let the loneliness out of the sheds...

Joyce Fegan asks how is it we have managed to engineer the most connected society of all time while also creating an epidemic of loneliness?

JOYCE FEGAN: Time to let the loneliness out of the sheds...

Joyce Fegan asks how is it we have managed to engineer the most connected society of all time while also creating an epidemic of loneliness?

Every so often I drive past this small building that has a sign outside that reads “Men’s Sheds”. I’ve been driving past this particular building for years. I wondered if it was what I thought it was — a place where men went to meet up, to avoid feeling lonely.

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