The future of one of Sheffield’s most celebrated arts venues looks set to be secure for the long-term with the announcement that its city centre site will be acquired by @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social for the benefit of the city. ✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social #GutLevel #MusicVenues #Dance #Clubbing

Really looking forward to hosting the discussion part of this – it's gonna be great! 👇 @plutopress.bsky.social

The case against the #Drax 15 has been thrown out of court, with the judge citing a lack of evidence. Activists with Reclaim The Power want to know why the police spent millions on the botched operation, instead of focusing on the far-right riots taking place at the time. ✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social

"We will continue our disruptions until institutions like the AMRC stop hosting these genocidal companies" Anti-apartheid activists have picketed an energy summit hosted by @sheffielduni.bsky.social involving companies that sell weapons to Israel's fugitive regime. @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

Enjoyed chatting to @theipaper.com about Oliver Coppard's risky and irresponsible decision to gamble public money reopening a failed airport during a climate emergency (£) 🛬 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

#Sheffield councillors have backed a strongly-worded motion condemning the actions of apartheid Israel. It's believed to be the most critical motion any #Labour group has yet passed regarding the government’s response to the ongoing genocide. @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

At Opus, we’re in the process of moving our company savings to a more ethical platform with better interest rates. @sammgreg.bsky.social spoke to colleague Bashkim Muca about the thinking behind the switch, and what learning we hope to offer to other organisations devoted to systems change ⬇️

Wow! So Oliver Coppard was not up to speed with the climate emergency and the disastrous contribution that passenger airflight makes to it Bit worrying...

South Yorkshire Mayor Oliver Coppard has said Doncaster Sheffield Airport is now unlikely to reopen to passengers before 2028. He also said the economic benefits of spending £100m of public money on the carbon-intensive project would be “lower than we initially understood” @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

"...that's on the BBC"

"This year’s programme is a true reflection of our city – diverse, vibrant and welcoming to all" We're super excited about the lineup for this year's @otsfestival.bsky.social, led by Lemn Sissay, @lucyworsley.bsky.social and @kenanmalik.bsky.social, plus loads more 📚 @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

Worth noting that every Sheffield MP, including Olivia Blake and @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, voted in favour of this disgraceful piece of legislation. They knew the premise of the bill wasn't true but they voted for it anyway.

"Say you support Palestine Action these days and you'll be arrested and thrown in jail"

With the advent of powerful new synthetic opioids, health workers fear we could be about to see an explosion in the rate of drug deaths in #Sheffield. Could 'The Thistle', a pioneering project in Glasgow that allows drug users to inject on-site, be part of the solution? @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

This quote in Helen Pidd's piece articulates something I've always picked up on in Manchester but never quite been able to put my finger on.

An inquiry into events surrounding the Battle of Orgreave will open this autumn, with campaigners hoping it will investigate alleged links between the Thatcher government and South Yorkshire Police. @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️ #OrgreaveInquiry #Orgreave

Fascinating strategy by this government to win a landslide and then tell us that our lives are going to get worse in every conceivable way.

Nothing more irritating than a politician saying they are "furious" about a situation they could manifestly do something about, but choose not to.

If you live in the north, this government (like the last one) holds you in utter contempt. They just could not give a shit about you or your quality of life.

Sheffield will be the UK’s biggest city to trial side-road zebra crossings — simple, low-cost changes to make streets safer. We’re already leading Yorkshire on School Streets. This is the next step. Thanks @maxsullivan.bsky.social for the inspiration nowthenmagazine.com/articles/she...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: #Sheffield is set to become the UK's biggest city to trial an innovative new kind of zebra crossing. Cllr @benmiskell.bsky.social told us the aim is to encourage more active travel and to cut deaths and serious injuries on our roads. @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

Imagine a Democrat calling for the deportation of a Jewish Republican. You can’t. It would never happen. Our political and media elites talk nonstop about antisemitism while totally normalizing and amplifying the worst and most vicious Islamophobia. Sickening:

"I think we’re only limited by our imagination in how well we can use this space" A new one-stop-shop providing free advice to householders on how to make their homes more energy efficient and reduce their electricity bills has opened its doors in #Sheffield city centre. @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

A new campaign hopes to take advantage of upcoming legislation to take a #Sheffield grouse moor into community ownership. @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social have made a starting offer of £1 to Moscar Moor's current owner the Duke of Rutland due to its "poor condition". @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

"It is not enough for Sheffield to say it stands for peace. It must prove it, and it must do so in deeds as well as words" Writing exclusively for Now Then, three #Sheffield #Labour councillors call for an end to the city's involvement with the international arms trade ✍️ @mineshparekh.bsky.social

Love this - importance of participatory mapping, leaning into perceptions and the power of emojis as shorthand in engagement nowthenmagazine.com/articles/i-h...

@secondmentions.bsky.social another outstanding effort from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social, this time from Victoria Munro. The Sheffield ski village fire of 2012 becomes "the plastic piste pyre" 👏👏👏

The @orgreavejustice.bsky.social campaign have called on Home Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social to expedite a long-promised inquiry into potentially unlawful police conduct. Many miners were violently beaten by police officers during 1984's 'Battle of #Orgreave' @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

It's frankly absurd that an extension of the Bakerloo is even being seriously talked about while Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol and Birmingham have *zero* metro lines between them. The #1 urban infrastructure project in this country should be a Crossrail sized line through Manchester.

@secondmentions.bsky.social "the rectangular steel boxes" from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social's @danhayesjourno.bsky.social

“Have they no human decency and no shame?” Anti-apartheid activists have called on the South Yorkshire Pensions Authority to divest from companies with ties to the ongoing genocide in Gaza – as well as £1.9 million in direct Israeli government bonds. @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

Reposting - Even though (terminally boring) Yusuf has resigned, whoever Farage appoints Chairman next could be much more charismatic - and dangerous. The next chair will still have the "extraordinary" powers granted by the Reform UK constitution. It's a TON of power. @writesbright.bsky.social

"I'm absolutely mortified that students aren’t being listened to" Parents, pupils and staff at Newfield School in #Meersbrook are protesting against plans by owner Mercia Trust to slash arts teaching by 50%, to spend even more time on Maths and English. @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️ #Sheffield #Schools

It's not specifically mentioned but a lot of this piece sums up what is so irritating about great swathes of the contemporary queer scene: the obsession with 'wholesomeness', the hot-chocolate-in-the-pub brigade

@secondmentions.bsky.social "the staple grain"

@sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social hey! Is the River Don Engine working again? :)

@eeih.bsky.social just saw you for the second time. Beautiful, incredible, transcendent music – utterly mesmerising. Really touches me like nothing else. Thankyou so much

A prominent 'Gender Critical' activist called me a "salty rapey prick" on Twitter, then deleted the tweet. Anyone know any good lawyers? 🙂

Absolutely sickening seeing a national paper provide a platform for a slanderous attack on a small independent Sheffield bookshop. Solidarity with Rhyme & Reason! ✊🏳️‍⚧️

A really important, and deeply alarming, investigation by my friend @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com about Reform. "Reform UK’s new constitution grants “extraordinary” levels of power to its chair Zia Yusuf... “Officially it would be quite difficult to engineer Yusuf’s dismissal”

According to @hopenothate.org.uk, Doncaster's newly elected Cllr Paul Cutts said that Muslims plan to "out Breed us, and take Over" 👇

Here's some info from @hopenothate.org.uk on the charming-sounding Cllr Howard Rimmer 👇

Here's @hopenothate.org.uk on Cllr Gerald "Ged" Squire 👇

Let's take a look at Doncaster's new crop of not-at-all-unsavoury councillors! Here's @hopenothate.org.uk on Cllr Steve Plater 👇

Joke writes itself...

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

🟣 New in @nowthenmag.bsky.social 🟣 "Technology is ancient – indigenous communities have always been technological" Enviro justice technologist + researcher Jocelyn Longdon on how we can learn from indigenous wisdom and the climate action of marginalised people. nowthenmagazine.com/articles/joy...

No punches pulled by @sammgreg.bsky.social in @nowthenmag.bsky.social nowthenmagazine.com/articles/air...

#Doncaster goes to the polls tomorrow in an election that could see #Reform take over the council for the first time Meet the potential future councillors who have "posted Hitler memes, white nationalist articles, and antisemitic conspiracy theories” on social media @sammgreg.bsky.social reports ⬇️

Genuinely fascinating watching any interview with Ronnie O'Sullivan. Talks in a way no other player in any sport does really. 'Radical honesty' I suppose you'd call it