“The clubs are coming back, pass it on!”
Like a whisper rippling through a crowd, excitement is mounting as venues prepare to reopen their doors. But over a year on from the first UK lockdown, what’s changed? In its absence, clubbing’s power to unite us has never been more needed. As stories about racist, misogynist, transphobic and homophobic violence continue to dominate headlines, the past year has led promoters, venues and artists to reckon with how clubs can still act as sites of exclusion for the vulnerable and marginalised.
In the North of England, the dance music scene has, like the rest of us, been in hibernation. But as spring’s birdsong swells outside our windows, the sounds of the underground are returning, and with a renewed emphasis on inclusion.
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Extension to Chair of the Lay Observers’ National Council term
The Secretary of State has announced a 1 year extension to John Thornhill OBE’s tenure as Chair of the Lay Observers’ National Council.
From:
10 May 2021
The Secretary of State has announced an extension to John Thornhill’s tenure as Chair of the Lay Observers’ National Council from 1 June 2021 until 31 May 2022.
This appointment is regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments and the extension has been made in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.
Lay Observers are unpaid public appointees appointed by the Secretary of State under the 1991 Criminal Justice Act. They inspect the conditions in which Detained Persons are transported or held by escort or custody contractors in England and Wales.
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Daisy Davis was meant to go travelling, but instead made sandwiches in a local cafe. Photograph: David Yeo/The Guardian
âThis isnât how my gap year was meant to beâ: how Covid turned young peopleâs lives upside down
Daisy Davis was meant to go travelling, but instead made sandwiches in a local cafe. Photograph: David Yeo/The Guardian
Some have missed out on adventure, others on university places â but as well as turmoil, the pandemic has thrown up some surprising consolations
Sat 8 May 2021 07.00 EDT
When Daisy Davis imagined her gap year, she pictured global adventure. Building schools as a volunteer in Tanzania or Ghana, perhaps, Interrailing through Europe, or travelling in Thailand. Finally 18 and with a year of blissful freedom before university, Daisy presumed that the world was there to be explored.