Architecture is usually thought of as the process of designing buildings for humans. A house is simply “a machine for living in”, as Le Corbusier put it. But the twin climate and nature emergencies ...

Police preparing to arrest a peaceful protestor for holding a sign. Now Then. South Yorkshire Police have joined police forces across the UK in launching a crackdown on the right to peaceful protest ...

Sheffield will be allowed to keep its hard fought-for modern committee system of local governance, after the government U-turned on plans to force all councils across the country to adopt more ...

The first and last time I saw The Pharcyde was almost 30 years ago in 1996, at the much-lamented Phoenix Festival and then in London as part of a great summer. So putting rose-tinted spectacles aside, ...

Video games rule. I got really into screens around 2020 and let me tell you, it’s amazing what they’ve got these days. You can now live out all your fantasies: accidentally falling off a cliff during ...

Sheffield councillors have backed a strongly-worded motion condemning the actions of Israel and calling on the UK government to take much tougher action to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza, including ...

Banger after banger: Jon McClure. Hamish Yewdall. The lights go down, and the theme tune from Rocky plays out (Bill Conti’s ‘Gonna Fly Now’). Onstage, four standard-bearers walk out waving giant flags ...

As part of this year’s Migration Matters Festival, I found myself drawn to a quieter kind of celebration – one grounded not in fanfare or performance, but in soil, petals and gentle conversation.

DocFest, Sheffield’s international documentary film festival, returned this month, and we were lucky enough to spend many hours watching several original films, along with catching up with industry ...

Sheffield Palestine Campaign Against Israeli Apartheid. In November 2023, Sheffield made national headlines as the first city council in the UK to vote to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Others soon ...

Sheffield Community Energy held a public event at Cemetery Road Baptist Church in January. Sheffield Community Energy. Back in 2019 Sheffield City Council declared a climate emergency, and the city ...

Members of People & Planet protesting about the presence of fossil fuel companies at the university's Careers Fair. People & Planet Sheffield. It isn’t an easy time to be a senior leader at the ...