Mark Cantrell's Blog, page 17

Entertainment: Covid-19 fuels £9bn boom for video games and digital streaming markets

The video games market scored its highest ever revenues in 2020 – lockdown has certainly been good for business.

Technology: to ‘liberate’ Britain’s low-paid precariat from Dickensian digital drudge

Can new technologies be harnessed to empower Britain's low paid workers to challenge the grim conditions of precarious and insecure jobs?

News: Britain’s national museum of democracy launches crowdfunding appeal to secure its future

A museum dedicated to the role ordinary people played in the struggle to create democracy in Britain is fighting for its life.

News: Broadcasting union calls for new body to tackle racism in the industry

Trade union calls for the creation of an independent body to tackle racism within the broadcasting industry.

Blog: Let’s hope the post-covid normal is nothing like the one that went before

Normal's not so great if all you have is poverty and hardship.

Blog: The next station will be Mars Central

Ever read something in a book and wished you'd thought of that? Mark Cantrell certainly relished Peter F Hamilton's take on interstellar train travel.

News: Midlands’ cultural economy on the brink of Covid-19 collapse, unions warn

Nearly half of all jobs in the cultural sector here in the West Midlands are at risk of vanishing thanks to Covid-19, trade unions have warned.

Blog: Don’t let self-doubt turn you into a toxic mediocrity

We all have our demons; we struggle with feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy about our craft, so why compound these with toxic resentment.

Blog: In England poverty often seems the penance for the sin of caring

Writing in search of a little catharsis, Mark Cantrell hopes becoming a carer isn't a prelude to the scrapheap...

News: Bradford University honours ‘champion of the ignored’ Nazir Afzal OBE

Former public prosecutor awarded honorary doctorate in recognition of groundbreaking contributions to equality and diversity.