This article will change your life. You will be better off if you read it. Struggling through a tidal wave of Christmas debts? Smile! Can’t manage on your benefits/wages/student loan? Panic not! How can a magazine article sort your money? No-one’s going to pop a crock of gold into your garden, but if you agree that ‘crock of crap’ better describes most financial services, read on.
The answer, for… [...]
December 31, 2010
This article will change your life. You will be better off if you read it. Struggling through a tidal wave of Christmas debts? Smile! Can’t manage on your benefits/wages/student loan? Panic not! How can a magazine article sort your money? No-one’s going to pop a crock of gold into your garden, but if you agree that ‘crock of crap’ better describes most financial services, read on.
The answer, for… [...]
December 30, 2010
How are the New Year resolutions doing? Dribbled with the fat of nut roast pig, scorched with candle smoke and cheap wine, muddled by late nights and morning chocolate? Come January, little pleasures may seem better than keeping resolutions that have lost their rose-tinted glow.
When researchers plugged wires into the heads of rats, straight into the pleasure centres of the brain, the rats pressed their little zing buttons… [...]
December 29, 2010
The year is 15,000 BC. The nomadic tribespeople of the Urn stand and admire their finished showpiece, a stone circle in Crookes. It has taken a month, but now all that hard handcraft has paid off. It stands etched in the landscape, giving Sheffield one of its first symbols of civilization. Utus, the head of his clan, has seen his dream realised. He has built his talisman, constructed to acknowledge… [...]
December 28, 2010
The names Percy Sillitoe and George Mooney loom large in Sheffield folklore, although many people living here have never heard of these colourful characters or the turbulent period they inhabited. They are the subject of J.P. Bean’s excellent local history The Sheffield Gang Wars. For those of you who have never had the chance to read Bean’s book, it tells the story of the rise and fall of the Sheffield
December 27, 2010
Slavery. A dirty word for a dirty practice which most would agree is a lesson learnt. So why are we still doing it? According to the United Nations, as many as 2.4 million people are being trafficked globally at any one time, with an estimated market value of $32 billion (£20 billion). The industries many of these people are trafficked into include domestic servitude, agricultural or industrial labour and, perhaps… [...]