by Mark Harrison | Mar 15, 2021 3:02PM | Long Reads
Social media allows everyone to voice their opinion anything. With that comes a greater responsibility to take care about what we say about other people because we never know who will be reading what we send. Last week was a prime example of this: Actor Meghan Markle...
by Charlie Ridler | Mar 15, 2021 2:52PM | Long Reads
Underneath Sheffield city centre, around Exchange Street, three rivers converge on a cathedral-like storm drain. Built in the mid-1800s, the “Megatron” is the climax of a network of Victorian tunnels sprawling below the city. Sheffield is a hotspot for...
by Izzie Pridmore | Mar 15, 2021 2:23PM | Long Reads
“We saw a massive influx of people wanting to volunteer, wanting to get involved, so we had to adapt and improve our process with online training, telephone interviews, webinar training.” Next Tuesday marks a whole year since the beginning of lockdown...
by Lydia Kerin | Mar 8, 2021 5:26PM | Long Reads
Image: The Naked Threat. Credit: Lydia Kerin After a relentless ‘Naked Threat’ campaign headed by Refuge, the UK government announced it would amend the Domestic Abuse Bill to explicitly criminalise the threat to share sexual photos or films without...
by Ed Brown | Mar 8, 2021 4:41PM | Long Reads
Image credit: Ed Brown This time a year ago, the concept of a ‘lockdown’ didn’t really mean much. Since then, it’s come to have a profound and unprecedented impact on all of our lives. But you shouldn’t be surprised if you feel like you’ll miss it at least a little...
by Lia | Mar 8, 2021 4:20PM | Long Reads
Image: CDC on Unsplash Today is the start of Boris Johnson’s long-awaited four-step plan to lifting lockdown in England, which will begin with the reopening of schools up and down the country. However, this plan has been met with a lot of criticism. The Prime...
