The gift of growing an absurd amount of tomatoes
How my reign as Tomato King brought me closer to the earth and spurred a gift exchange among neighbors I could've never anticipated

The loss of staff belonging in higher education
Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging

Beyond the Spark II: Crisis and Continuity - Ending The Harm
Beyond the Spark II: Crisis and Continuity is a new report by Dr Colm Walsh (Queen’s University Belfast), examining the conditions that contributed to the Ballymena riots of June 2025 and the lessons for preventing future episodes of collective violence. Building on the original Beyond the Spark research, the study explores the experiences of young people […]

What if we stopped treating social care like a service? A small village community in Yorkshire showed me another way
A visit to my friend in a remote Yorkshire village led me into a three-month immersion in one of Britain’s most remarkable forms of social care.
