I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the American idea of downshifting. It’s more than some middle-class fight for the ‘good life’. You don’t have to live with chickens on an allotment, but it does mean opting out of the over-worked lifestyle. I’m no executive high-flyer, but I’m facing the coming year feeling skint, too busy to keep up with friends and family, stressed and over-worked. I’m not
December 29, 2011
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the American idea of downshifting. It’s more than some middle-class fight for the ‘good life’. You don’t have to live with chickens on an allotment, but it does mean opting out of the over-worked lifestyle. I’m no executive high-flyer, but I’m facing the coming year feeling skint, too busy to keep up with friends and family, stressed and over-worked. I’m not
Sheffield is on the verge of a major project to upgrade all its roads to a proper standard after years of being neglected, patched and generally made inadequate by temporary fixes. You’d expect people would welcome this. After all, there is nothing worse than being thrown about and generally discomforted by the surface upon which you travel; a surface that would challenge the most gifted off-road cyclist even without the… [...]
“I hear a lot of talk about the rule of law but we can’t have the rule of law if people can’t afford the law.”
So said David Blunkett MP, speaking about the coalition’s proposed reforms to legal aid at a rally in Sheffield on 3rd June 2011. Mr Blunkett is not renowned as a bleeding heart liberal lefty, so what got him so fired up?
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Scott Fitzgerald’s works are love and unhappiness and beauty and drunkenness. His writing is poetry masquerading as prose that rises and rages like a piano sounding and then falls soft and leaves the reader with an ache. His books are the joyous party that ends with a broken-heart and a hangover. He is a great of American literature who died with only a few around his grave and slipped away… [...]