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As a team and as a magazine, we’ve moved further and further away from conventional definitions of journalism over the past 18 months. The quickest way of summarising this is to say that we see the ...

Ed Miliband, MP for Doncaster and Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, came out with a social media video on the second day of the conference, asking, “What’s the link between a wind ...

Crip is bold, rebellious and unapologetic. Crip has sass and attitude. Crip is a movement that has emerged from the disability community actively rebelling against ableist attitudes, prejudice and ...

Throughout these processes, the city has been the site of a class struggle in which working people have time and again attempted to improve our pay, reduce our hours of work and establish more control ...

For many residents and councillors, the ceasefire vote was the fulfilment of a moral duty. It reflected Sheffield’s long tradition of internationalism and peace activism, from standing against ...

Charities supporting survivors of sexual violence speak out about Now Then data showing disabled women are half as likely to see their attackers charged with a crime. Now Then speaks to Natalie Shaw, ...

It's for reasons like this that Sheffield is one of a handful of cities in the UK to set up a Fairness Commission, an independent panel of local figures who have been meeting since February to hear ...

No matter how long you've been in Sheffield, there's something intriguing about old photos of the city. Whether you're trying to spot familiar sites or marvelling at how certain areas look the same, ...

New data seen exclusively by Now Then shows that the University of Sheffield (UoS) received even more money from companies that manufacture deadly weapons than had previously been thought, with ...

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 ...

Hard-right populist party Reform UK came within ten votes of winning their first-ever seat on Sheffield City Council yesterday, after a shock by-election which saw a previously safe Labour seat switch ...