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‘Rethinking Regions in Turbulent Times’ was the title of our editorial at the start of this volume (54) of Regional Studies (Bailey et al., 2020a). Back in January we had not foreseen quite how prescient that statement would look just a few months on. Climate and migration crises have been met by a rise in populism, which have in turn been most recently overshadowed by the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. The impacts of the current Covid-19 crisis alone will be vast as well as spatially uneven. Comparisons have been drawn between this global pandemic and the global financial crisis of 2008–09, although the impact of the former is likely to be much more profound and pervasive (Turok et al., 2017). As with the financial crisis (Lago et al., 2020), although most comparisons in the media have been at the country level, the spread and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been regional rather …