We’ve all heard it said that Britain doesn’t make things any more. We’re a service economy apparently, although I’ve never been quite certain what that entails. Does it mean we’re now merely the kind of country that waits at...
Read MoreI feel as though I’m about to die. Not in a horrific, life flashing before my eyes kind of way, but in a dreamlike, out-of-body experience. Except, if I really was about to die, I would hope that a failed 1960s underpass might...
Read MoreA new exhibition in Sheffield brings together old and new artworks to explore the world of John Ruskin. Do modern artists have just as much to say about the role of creating beautiful things as the Victorians did? You might have...
Read MoreIn 1981, Roy Hattersley, then Shadow Home Secretary, made a short film for Yorkshire Television about the Sheffield in which he grew up. It’s free to view on the British Film Institute’s website, and though it appears to have...
Read MoreIt’s 2020 or 2021. I’ve lost track of time and which exact phase of the pandemic we’re in. It seems as though it will never end. All I can be certain of is that it’s after bubbling has been introduced because I am,...
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