Julie Tomlin
London
'the old is not yet dead and the new is not yet born’
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Trying to make sense of what's happening in the meantime.
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Blog: Annie Lloyd
The first Compass Festival in 2011 was a modest affair – a handful of small projects over one weekend supporting a symposium on interactive live art in public places. We attracted almost 3,500 people and the response was so positive we were hooked. We programmed that festival through a combination of inviting artists we know and love, and making a national call-out. And that model has stood us in good stead ever since.
Sex zone protests
Residents living near the UK’s first managed red light zone have vowed to continue protests against the initiative following reports of antisocial behaviour. Leeds’s Holbeck district became the country’s first legal red light area in 2014 when it was introduced as a pilot scheme to tackle an existing problem. Since the year 2000 nine sex workers had been murdered in Leeds and Bradford and two were victims of attempted murder.
Food for struggling citizens
A “citizens’ supermarket” is to open in Birkenhead – targeting residents who are struggling to pay the bills. Work has begun on the site, which will sell quality surplus groceries at less than half their normal cost and also offer supportive services including welfare rights, debt and budgeting advice, and jobseeking help.
Around the waste
As we become ever more wary of pointless plastics, food companies known for using excessive packaging are under pressure to change their ways. They’re now starting to invest in alternatives, looking at using anything from ground-up lobster shells and rice husks to brand new graphene composites. But is this really going to help save the planet?
New crime figures in dock - Big Issue North
Figures that suggest a surge in violent crime should be treated with caution, an expert has warned. New data on reported crime appears to show that some parts of the north saw a jump in offending in the year to September – with Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire coming off worst in the region on most counts. But Andromachi Tseloni, professor of quantitative criminology at Nottingham Trent University, says that while the headline figures appear shocking, the data cannot be fully relied upon.
Food for thought - Big Issue North
Nathan Atkinson’s first day back after October half-term was a stressful one. In his first year as head of Richmond Hill Primary School in Leeds, the gas in the kitchens failed and children had to be served sandwiches for dinner. The behaviour of a number of children was “really off the wall”, says Atkinson, and when he spoke to them it became clear their frustration stemmed from the lack of a hot meal at lunchtime.
Blog: Pamela DeMenthe - Big Issue North
As I sit at my laptop, my fingers poised to write, I can’t believe it is only three weeks to go until I begin my book tour at the Edinburgh Fringe to promote my new release, Sticky Digits. The flyers are ordered, my white suit’s dry-cleaned and my train tickets are booked. No going back now! This is the moment my career as an erotic author has been building towards. So what makes me different from erotica authors like EL James and the other ones? Aside from the fact I’m better. It’s simple.
Cristian, Ripon - Big Issue North
Tell us a bit about yourself. I am 31 years old and I am from Romania. I have been selling Big Issue North for two or three years. ‘I am a very positive person. I am always smiling.’ Why do you sell the magazine? It was difficult for me to get a job here because of my English. I didn’t go to school very much in Romania. My dad had no money. There were a lot of problems there. I do not understand computers and internet. I don’t have skills to do other things. This job is my job.
Preview: The Grapes of Wrath - Big Issue North
When John Steinbeck visited the camps that housed thousands of migrants who had been victims of the Dust Bowl crisis, he wrote that he wanted to “put a tag of shame on these greedy bastards who are responsible for this”. His fury encouraged him to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, and Steinbeck wove his criticism of the banks and corporate greed into his fiction – leading right-wing critics to label him a “liar” and a “communist”.
Court in the act - Big Issue North
“It’s really hard for people to give you recognition when they don’t know what you do on a day-to-day basis,” points out Chorley-born Laura Massaro, who despite not being a household name, is ranked number one in Europe in her sport and number two in the world. British squash itself is currently the best in the world, thanks to Massaro and her male counterpart, Sheffield’s Nick Matthew, but it rarely finds its way into the public eye.
Qawwali: ‘When my soul is happy I am happy’ - Big Issue North
“We keep hearing from the political establishment that all Muslims are terrorists. We’re not terrorists – as everyone knows. Our message is one of peace and love,” says Muazzam Ali Khan, speaking to Big Issue North from his home in Faisalabad in Pakistan via translator.
Preview: Gaudete - Big Issue North
It’s not one of his better-known works but Yorkshire-born poet Ted Hughes worked for 10 years in the sixties and seventies on a prose poem called Gaudete. Finally published with a prologue and epilogue in 1977, a few years before Hughes became Poet Laureate, it tells the story of the vicar of an English village who is carried off by elemental spirits and replaced by his double.
South Yorkshire women strike back
The story of South Yorkshire’s coal mining industry looms large in Doncaster, a town that has been hit by unemployment and economic decline since the last pits closed in 2015. But a new group with roots in the women’s movement that emerged during the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike has emerged to fight the closure of the town’s Women’s Aid Centre and austerity cuts that are harming women.
Zo hervormen Spaanse vrouwen de politiek
De statistieken onderstrepen het verhaal van de ziekenhuiskok. Momenteel is 22 procent van de Spaanse vrouwen werkloos, tegenover 19 procent van de mannen. Onder de twintig jaar is dat bijna 47 procent tegenover 44 procent bij de mannen. Bekijk hier meer cijfers over werkloosheid in Spanje. Maar vrouwen als Rey Pérez zijn meer dan slachtoffers van de bezuinigingen.
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