British democracy is truly circling the wet rim of history’s greasiest toilet. Every major political party seems to be operating under the belief that Reform UK supporters have five votes each and ...

Back in 2019 Sheffield City Council declared a climate emergency, and the city has ambitious plans to meet net-zero targets by 2030. In trying to meet this target, community energy projects, ...

Model candidate The Doncaster Free Press report that Reform’s candidate for mayor, 30-year-old Alexander Jones, is a part-time male model who also works as a foreign exchange trader, after a previous ...

Here’s an analogy based on a tragic real-life event: Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War. When Florence and her 38 nurses arrived at Scutari in Constantinople in November 1854 they set to work at ...

It isn’t an easy time to be a senior leader at the University of Sheffield (UoS). The UK higher education sector is in a period of crisis, with international student numbers dropping sharply for the ...

To understand the project better, I decide to have a go at mapping Park Hill, my own neighbourhood. Centred around the (in)famous flats of the same name, Park Hill effectively acts as a boundary ...

South Yorkshire will take back control of its bus network in 2027, bringing routes, timetables and fares under democratic control for the first time in decades. That’s the decision announced by South ...

Student activists at the University of Sheffield (UoS) have protested throughout the week against the institution’s links to the Drax power station in North Yorkshire, which despite its claimed ...

Regular readers of Now Then will be familiar with the plight of the UK’s grassroots music venues. Only last week, the crisis finally hit Sheffield with the news that the much-loved Dorothy Pax, a ...

Rivers are powerful beings. They can make or break our towns and cities – many ancient settlements are only where they are because they were founded on the banks of a river, which centuries later may ...

While the work and determination of the MVT can only be admired, the fact of the matter is that without direct government intervention, or a shift in the music industry’s own culture, the rate of ...

There’s a lot that needs doing in Sheffield to get us to net-zero, and a lot that these bonds can help us do. Other councils have raised £1 million for each round of funding they’ve launched, and it ...