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I'm not meaning to be churlish, but I can't find any sources to back this claim up. Can you point me towards one please? Id be pleased but surprised if it were true. See the attached for example. Figure 11 shows Sheffield to be absent from the top ten university cities for retention, beaten by even the likes of Middlesborough and Swansea. At the very best we keep one in three and that is only if we sneak in at 11th in this table. http://www.centreforcities.org/reader/great-british-brain-drain/migration-students-graduates/

You will get over it of course, but in the process you're proving my central point about an apathetic Sheffield population who sigh in weary acceptance about the city being rather shabby, and then adopt a 'I dont really care' mentality about its northern rivals being forward looking. People get the cities and environments they deserve. Accept bland mediocrity, and so it shall be delivered. Caveat: the Gap example is a silly example to make a bigger point. It is not the central point of the debate. ---------- Post added 26-07-2018 at 15:45 ---------- I'd be interested in seeing the source for that, because it surprises me and goes against conventional wisdom. A large proportion of Sheffield students are overseas students - do they stay? Similarly, Sheffield doesn't appear in even the top 8 student cities in this survey, in which employment opportunities post graduation, is a key factor. https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/qs-best-student-cities/eight-best-student-cities-uk I'd happily be proven wrong though.

You did, and I replied to say you were mistaken. Did you not bother to read it? ;-) Irrespective of what it might say on that website, the two main Gap stores in Manchester are both proper stores, not outlet. They are in St Ann Square (i was there last week) and there is a huge one in Trafford. They are NOT outlet stores. There is a large outlet store in Salford, part of an outlet mall. The main store in Leeds too (on Park Row) is not an outlet store. I believe both Manchester and Leeds are closer than Birmingham, and it against those two cities that Sheffield should be measured, not Doncaster or Derby.

Don't take my word for it . . it's straight from the Yorkshire Post who cite a property market website. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/property/homes-gardens/five-year-forecast-for-yorkshire-house-prices/ The ranking is based on a number of criteria which seem to include time on market, selling price to listing price ratio and number of registered buyers to sellers. S7 is number one in the country, followed by M32 in Manchester (trafford), an area of Bristol and an area of Poole. The coldest market is the Borough of Westminster, in London.

You're asking for examples of mute resignation that the city will never be anything? Do you really need them? Look around you. I've already highlighted two - the failure to capitalise on the birthplace of football, and the rather revealing realisation that Gap considers its store in our retail quarter a dumping ground for its surplus stock. What could we add to that? Well, a totally dead city centre (the whole point of this thread), a persistent failure to attract significant businesses or jobs compared to MCR and Leeds, and the inability to turn thousands of students who come to the city into permanent residents. I love the place, but I'm approaching retirement. Young people dont really want to be here. And that's a real shame.

Recent surgery on my arm meant I couldn't drive for a month or so and I had to rely on the 3 and 3A to get me from Nether Edge to town and back for a while. Shocking service. On several occasions 2-3 scheduled buses simply didn't turn up, and this was early evening. Never again. Until these dimwits can develop a semi-functioning service I'm going to be selfish and remain part of the traffic problem of Sheffield.

I wasn't blaming the fact Sheffield has a labour council per se. You're right. Labour councils (and Tory councils) in other cities have taken their cities hurtling past Sheffield in terms of development. If anything, I was blaming Sheffield's electorate. They vote automatically for Labour, the Council knows it is safe and continues to do nothing and - here is the rub - the Sheffield electorate lets them get away with it. That wouldn't happen in Leeds or Manchester. It seems to me they are held to account much more by the electorate there than here. That was my whole point: we get the city we deserve. I keep coming back to my example of the birthplace of football. I was in Manchester yesterday and walked past the Football Museum there. It rankles me that Sheffield people just don't seem to care; there is a mute resignation that their city will never be anything, so why worry about it?

It's hard not to come to the conclusion that those costs, damages and inconveniences will fall more heavily at the feet of the people who voted for it themselves - the working class in Brexit areas like the north east, the midlands and, dare i say it, South Yorkshire. Has there ever been a clearer cut case of turkeys voting for Xmas?

It's weird as a non-Sheffield native to see the bickering about SCC. The simple fact of the matter is that cities get the councils they deserve. Sheffield people will vote Labour forever, irrespective of their genuine political views, and while that unquestioning loyalty remains and people vote the way they always do because their ma and pa voted that way too, there is no chance at all of Sheffield developing in the way more forward thinking cities have.

I'm sorry - and I don't want to labour the point and focus on Gap, because it was purely illustrative of a wider general point - but that simply isn't the case. There are mainstream Gap stores in St Ann Square in the heart of Manchester (I was there last week) and a larger one in Trafford Centre. There are also outlet stores in crappier places like Stockport and an outlet mall in Salford Quays. I have also bought from Gap in York recently, and I believe there is a regular store in Harrogate also. So there you have it. The premier walking street in Sheffield's new much vaunted Retail Quarter is akin to Stockport and a Salford outlet mall.

Meanwhile, the EU and Japan have signed one of the largest trade deals in history between two economic superpowers. It took 5 years to conclude. Interestingly, one of the issues covered is that the 10% tariff on Japanese cars entering the EU will be gradually reduced to be completely eliminated within 8 years. However, this won't apply to Japanese cars produced in the numerous Japanese car plants in the UK. So it will be 10% cheaper to import cars from Japan than it will Japanese cars made in the UK. What do you think will happen to those Japanese car factories in the UK, and the thousands and thousands of jobs that rely on them?

There is not a regular Gap at Meadowhall. ---------- Post added 18-07-2018 at 09:58 ---------- Yes. I work on South Quay so I am down here everyday. The Pax is ok, but only on a Friday night, and that is mostly workers from the area. They pizza is only on every Friday or every other Friday. My point is simple. It is a lovely picturesque area, full of ready made retail and entertainment venues in the form of those arches. And what is there? A greasy spoon cafe, an office for the canal, and Dorothy Pax, which looks like a cafe from some tedious market town masquerading as a bar in the evening. Now look at the same area in Leeds - boutiques, art galleries, craft beer bars, coffee shops - it's a real vibrant area. I don't buy the ' it's a long way from town line'. It's no further from Fargate than the Leeds dockland area is from, say, Briggate in Leeds.

I can confirm that residents of Meadow Bank Avenue do, in fact, pay for the pollarding of those trees, and every other aspect of upkeep of the facilities and amenities in MBA and the adjoining Edge Bank. The residents have formed a limited company, appointed directors and each household pays a small annual charge.

This might be true, but it's always the case on forums. It's either one extreme or the other. I've only lived here two years and absolutely love it. However, i think it's silly and blinkered to not accept that Sheffield city centre could - and SHOULD - be a lot more vibrant and engaging if it had better local leadership. It has a huge catchment area, but never really pulls people in. A wonderful resource like South Quay is wasted and is a ghost town - look at what Leeds did to their canalside areas, by way of contrast. Compare the Xmas markets in Leeds or Manchester to those in Sheffield - it's almost embarassing by way of contrast, and there is no palpable reason why it should be so. Sheffield is the home of football, yet what does the city do to capitalise on such a unique and globally significant point of difference? Absolutely nothing. I was disappointed to walk down the Moor last week to check out the new Gap store, only to discover that the new Gap in what is meant to be Sheffield's premier shopping street is in fact a Gap surplus store. Just let that sink in for a moment - Sheffield shoppers are fit only for the crap that Gap can't sell elsewhere in the north. Sheffield is a great place let down by its civic leaders. It could be so much greater. That isn't being disloyal to the city; it's a plea to pull its socks up.

There are no taxes on 'healthy foods' so it would be impossible to remove what doesn't exist. Healthy food like fresh meat, fruit and vegetables, pulses, grains, fish, cereals and even cold takeaway food is zero-rated for VAT. 20% VAT applies to hot takeaways, icecream, crisps and snacks, sugary drinks etc.

Which is why the state pension is being simplified. The state pension is there as a safety net; 'strongly encouraging' individuals to save for their old age to have a better standard of living is EXACTLY the right thing to do when we can't rely on adults being responsible enough to do it themselves. And if their overseas holidays and iphones and smoking habit means they genuinely can't afford it, employers are not obligated to contribute also - they get no opt-out option. How anyone can see this as a bad thing is beyond me. ---------- Post added 06-04-2018 at 15:14 ----------

You are given the choice. If you tell the BBC you online watch streaming tv (and Gold is available on NOW) and never watch broadcast tv, then you are not obliged to pay the BBC licence tv.

Utter tosh. It is not like increasing taxes. It is designed to make people do what adults are meant to do - take some responsibility for their retirement. It is not a tax, because you will get it back. And it is completely possible to opt out of it you want to be a child and avoid it. Governments around the world are increasingly having to introduce such schemes because sadly adults today prefer to live with their head in the sand and not plan for the future. We are a generation of children.

I'm in that part of town pretty much five nights a week, and never experienced any problems, despite being a white guy in his fifties. It's no different from any other part of the UK with a young population. Plenty of good pubs and half a dozen decent restaurants. This nonsense about it being a no go area after ten is jsut that - nonsense. For a start the shooting happened in the middle of the afternoon down a side street.

There are plans to turn the now closed Sheffield Tourist Centre into a football hub, with United, Wednesday, Sheffield FC and Hallam FC joining forces to work on a project designed to make the birthplace of the game a football tourist centre. Great idea etc etc, but isn't this typical Sheffield? Much as I love the place, I'm astounded that it has never made much of its unique position as the home of the world's most popular game, and has let places like Manchester build a major Football Museum and steal a march on us. Yet again. Manchester will have the museum. We will likely get a small shop full of those fake replica Sheffield FC shirts from that shop that went bust after only a few months near Hunters Bar. Twas ever thus . . . https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/exciting-plans-emerge-for-old-sheffield-tourist-office-1-9101664

I think you're being too simplistic - i could make a good case that facism is an essential left wing philosophy too, based on the old populist tradition of galvansing the masses against an easily identifiable (usually alien) enemy, nationalisation of core industries etc. As for links with big business, how does modern China fit into that thinking? It's run by a communist party, yet is effectively state capitalism, with the state effectively creating and then setting free (but maintaining elements of control) over massive Chinese run international companies. Huawei would be a great example of that. So in China we have a communist government running a state-directed industry, state directed companies, all against a backdrop of free market economies, with few political freedoms. That sounds the very definition of facism to me. Labels are meaningless now.

Why would a gated community have an impact on the wider area? It's not like it's a camp with machine gun-armed security guards in watch towers. I'm not sure what you mean? I live round the corner from there and never give it a thought. It's just a building with people living in flats inside, like thousands of others up and down the country.

My assistant is a Romanian, working at one of the large law firms in town. Fantastic woman - committed, intelligent and hard-working. She was poached by a rival recently, but she wanted to stay with us and we upped her salary accordingly. She's doing very well. I also have a Greek and a Hungarian in the same team. ---------- Post added 28-03-2018 at 16:54 ---------- I think you'll find Burma - or Myanmar as it is called now - is in Asia, and is not one of the 'other Middle Eastern or African' countries ---------- Post added 28-03-2018 at 17:01 ---------- Perhaps it's a student pass? Perhaps it's a monthly pass they have paid for. You simply can't state categorically that they have walked into the country and got a free bus pass based on the limited knowledge you have. It's a ridiculous assertion to make.

Not particularly, no. It might be Tory policy to maintain much of it in state hands, but the reality is more and more of it is being handed to private sector companies, PPP projects etc. And it is the essence of conservative thinking to focus on gradual change, subtle enhancements etc, unlike traditional socialist thought which is about overhauling societal structures. In that sense too, Nazi thinking is much more akin to revolutionary socialist thinking than conservatism.

The left and right divide in politics and philosophy is far more complex than your question suggests. But, yes, certain core tenets of the Nazi Party policies bear close resemblance to traditional ideas of far left thinking. Central to their thinking was agitating the working class against capitalist exploiters and they advocated nationalisation of core industries like education, healthcare and transport. In a 1927 speech Hitler said: “We are socialists. We are the enemies of today’s capitalist system of exploitation … and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”