Christian Lisseman

When AJ Odudu first moved to London at the age of 21, she encountered that particular form of prejudice well-known to many northerners. “Basically, people thought I was poor and stupid because of my accent,” says Odudu, 35. Stupid she…Read more

On FA Cup final day in May 2021, a video was released on Twitter in which 12 football fans from across the country held up pieces of paper that silently detailed the abuse they had received at matches and on…Read more

Next year marks two decades since the Beta Band called time on their critically acclaimed yet commercially disastrous career, which left the Edinburgh quartet £1.2 million in debt to their record label and with a legendary reputation for self-sabotage (they…Read more

Over Easter half term, while I worked, my nine-year-old daughter demanded my phone off me for hours so she could video-call her friends. They spent hours on those screens. They were playing cafes – not on an app but using…Read more

At first glance the ugly heap of rain-sodden mattresses and other discarded rubbish dumped in full view of residents on a council estate is just an isolated local eyesore. But the prevalence of other grotesque fly-tipping messes elsewhere in and…Read more

Price rises over the last 18 months have meant a lucky few companies, and their owners, have been making extraordinary profits. BP, Shell and other fossil fuel giants have reported record earnings as soaring gas and oil prices last year…Read more

Born in Yorkshire in 1968, and raised in Glasgow, Martin Creed came to prominence in 2001 when he won the Turner Prize with Work 227: The Lights Going On and Off, exhibiting an empty room in which the lights switch,…Read more

I didn’t realise it at the time but almost 40 years ago I was a work from home pioneer, although back then it didn’t have the funky urban dictionary acronym WFH. What a great way to earn a living, I…Read more

By the late noughties, Everything But The Girl admit they had resigned themselves to never making another album as a band. Despite their achievements, which includes an international smash-hit with Todd Terry’s remix of Missing in 1995, they felt anxious…Read more

Conservation charity Friends of the Lake District is inviting people to join staff and volunteers on a walk across Morecambe Bay to raise money to help continue its work protecting and enhancing Lake District and Cumbrian landscapes.