Results in elections are often affected by what happens in marginal seats. Nigel Slack, active citizen and co-founder of WhoIsMyCouncillor.co.uk, looks at what this might mean for Sheffield's local elections on 4 May.
Sheffield Radical Film Festival aims to make this May Day a day of political education, reflection and action in the city. The organisers tell us more.
Alex Niven’s The North Will Rise Again looks at the North’s cultural history
of modernism, progressivism and radicalism. Sean Morley speaks to Niven about Brian Ferry, regional devolution – and how the
North invented sci-fi.
Scale trees – huge, hulking structures which may have helped bring about an ice age which then destroyed them – are an apt metaphor for the present-day myth of infinite growth on a finite planet, writes Sheffield Green peer Natalie Bennett.