“I’m irrelevant!” James Smith repeats at the climax of The Incident, midway through his band Yard Act’s debut album. In fact the Leeds frontman finds himself in the thick of a new wave of words-first post-punk bands that extends from the impassioned sloganeering of IDLES and brooding poetry of FontainesContinue Reading
Compared to previous censuses, the 1921 data shows more children in education. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA Nobody is more excited for the release of a census than a genealogist. I have been researching family trees for 20 years and I have seen the release of key documents, including the 1911Continue Reading
Halfpoint/Shutterstock It may feel like a common occurrence today, but if you cast your mind back to the first COVID lockdown, having whole families working and studying from home was a very unfamiliar situation. And it was one that had unfamiliar consequences. For opposite-sex couples, lockdown disrupted the traditional genderContinue Reading
Some estimates suggest antimicrobial resistance could cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050. Fahroni/ Shutterstock Antimicrobial resistance is spreading rapidly worldwide, and has even been likened to the next pandemic – one that many people may not even be aware is happening. A recent paper, published in Lancet, hasContinue Reading
Peacocking isn't the only way to attract mates. Andrey Bocharov/Shutterstock Sex is an expensive business, biologically speaking. Finding a suitable mate takes time and energy. Offspring are also a huge investment of resources. But sex does offer a rewarding possibility: children who are fitter than their parents thanks to newContinue Reading
The Russian-Ukrainian war began in 2014 after pro-European protesters toppled the government of the Moscow-backed president Victor Yanukovych. This led to a rapid escalation of a crisis that resulted in the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014 and the establishment of two Russian-protected de facto states in easternContinue Reading
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport MP has today called for the waters around Devil’s Point and Firestone Bay to be designated an official bathing water subject to regular testing for water quality. Devil’s Point, also known as Firestone Bay, is a popular spot for wild swimming, with swimming facilities already inContinue Reading
Canada and England players face the ball during a FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada quarter-final in 2015. Matt Jacques | Alamy Live News When the Football Association in England launched the Women’s Super League in 2011, it was the first milestone in what sport sociologists have identified as a newContinue Reading
CRISTIANO RONALDO just keeps on delivering the goods for Man Utd. Since returning to the Premier League this summer, Ronaldo has bailed his side out a number of times with some crucial goals. Ronaldo in full flight during his time at Juventus The 36-year-old looks set to smash through theContinue Reading
ORION PRODUCTION/Shutterstock As winter pressures have mounted on the NHS, both health staff and politicians have grown increasingly frustrated with the number of unvaccinated patients needing treatment for COVID. The risk of being hospitalised with COVID is substantially greater for those that haven’t had a vaccine. The latest data suggestsContinue Reading
