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2 months ago | nowthenmagazine.com | Sam Gregory

Dr Joanna Clare Dobson is a writer, researcher, artist and allotment-holder based in Sheffield. Her academic work focuses on the role the more-than-human world plays in narratives around trauma, as well as exploring the intersections between grief and nature. The sudden death of her seven-year-old brother Simon when Joanna was ten was a formative influence on her work, leading her to look at what goes unsaid in moments of deep loss.

2 months ago | nowthenmagazine.com | John Carlisle

On 28 April at the Festival of Debate, I’m hosting Public Finance Black Hole - The Big Lie. We’ll explore how dangerous and inaccurate myths about the way government finances work have held us back as a society, and caused inequality to skyrocket. Let me explain a little about how I came to the subject. I came to the UK to live permanently in 1970, after being away for four years. When I finally got my UK citizenship in 1982 I was so proud. But England was not the country I had left in 1966.

2 months ago | nowthenmagazine.com | Maryam Jameela

Skip to main content Sheffield Central MP Abtisam Mohamed and Earley and Woodley MP Yuan Yang have both been detained and deported by Israeli officials, along with two aides travelling with the pair. The Israeli Embassy in London released a statement, explaining: Israel will not allow the entry of individuals or entities that act against the state and its citizens, promote calls for its boycott, accuse it with false allegations, or call for sanctions against ministers and elected officials....

2 months ago | nowthenmagazine.com | Aidan Daly

There are a fair few strings to Ultan O’Brien’s fiddle bow. Raised in the ‘wilds of County Clare’, he’s a regular at sessions up and down Ireland and engages studiously with his country’s musical traditions. Though fired up by the innovative spirit of early twentieth-century fiddlers, he draws just as much from psychoacoustics and sound art. His varied collaborations are united by a playful, exploratory approach to hybridising traditional music with different genres and disciplines.

2 months ago | nowthenmagazine.com | Sam Gregory

When you think of your immediate neighbourhood, what are the first things that spring to mind? It’s unlikely to be the exact ratio of homes to parking spaces, or any number of other official datasets held by public bodies. When we think of our own communities, we’re more likely to draw on the personal and the subjective: the bakery we like, the pocket park where we walk the dog, the dual carriageway that’s a nightmare to cross taking our kids to school.