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It’s okay to admit Mother’s Day is hard as an estranged adult

It’s okay to admit Mother’s Day is hard as an estranged adult

by Chloe Bowen | Mar 15, 2021 3:08PM | Long Reads

For some of us mother’s day is like watching a dark cloud moving towards you. You see it coming and you can’t stop it. It finally reaches you and that day is a torrential downpour which leaves you feeling a tad worse for wear. Then the following days are a time where...
Believe this: Taking suicide seriously on social media

Believe this: Taking suicide seriously on social media

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...
Emblems of the past, omens of the future: Abandoned spaces in the Steel City

Emblems of the past, omens of the future: Abandoned spaces in the Steel City

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...
Virtual volunteering: How has the pandemic impacted the UK’s voluntary sector one year on?

Virtual volunteering: How has the pandemic impacted the UK’s voluntary sector one year on?

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...
Naked Threat campaigners secure criminalisation of image-based abuse

Naked Threat campaigners secure criminalisation of image-based abuse

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...
Lockdown gave us time to focus on ourselves. Can post-covid society keep this benefit?

Lockdown gave us time to focus on ourselves. Can post-covid society keep this benefit?

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...
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