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...
by Sophie Henderson | Mar 8, 2021 4:15PM | Long Reads
Image: Dancing in Driveways. Credit: Sophie Henderson Neighbours in Sheffield have been using the power of dance to combat social isolation, keep fit and stay connected during Covid. When the UK went into its first lockdown back in March 2020, many communities came...
by Frazer MacDonald | Mar 8, 2021 3:58PM | Long Reads
Image: Workers hold a May Day strike in Los Angeles in 2017. Photo Credit: (CC BY 2.0) Poor pay, poor conditions and lack of care has dogged e-com giant Amazon for years. This week workers in the US have gone on strike. Support for the industrial action is growing...
