Star & Crescent – News for and by the people of Portsmouth

Participants Needed for Women Walking in Portsmouth Research Project

5th October 2025

Are you a female* resident of Portsmouth aged 18 or over? About the Study: I am a research PhD student at the University of Portsmouth. My thesis focuses on how different women experience walking in [… read more ]

Protestors Picket Stephen Morgan’s Office After Vote to Proscribe Palestine Action as ‘Terrorists’

2nd July 2025

Residents of Portsmouth South and members of the Portsmouth Resistance Collective have picketed the office of Stephen Morgan MP, with placards reading ‘Don’t Proscribe Palestine Action’, ‘Stop the RAF Spy Flights for Israel’, and ‘We [… read more ]

Portsmouth UCU Branch Votes to Divest from Tesla, Starlink and X

23rd June 2025

In light of events in the United States and the ramifications across the world, the Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has voted to call on the University of Portsmouth (UoP) to [… read more ]

Participants Needed for Women Walking in Portsmouth Research Project

5th October 2025

Struggling for an Endometriosis Diagnosis in Portsmouth

24th March 2025

The growing issue of waiting lists for gynaecological care in the UK is leaving many women in pain, with some enduring severe symptoms for years before they can see a specialist. The majority of women [… read more ]

Arrested for – and Proud of – Wanting Peace in Gaza

7th November 2024

Portsmouth-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign activist Linda Spence was shocked to be arrested last week for opposing a genocide in which up to 186,000 people have been killed. Here’s what happened in her words. I’m not [… read more ]

Portsmouth Eco-Literary Project Offers Exciting Performing and Recording Opportunities

5th October 2025

Have you ever wanted to visit a recording studio and perform for posterity? Supported by Portsmouth Creates, Pens of the Earth are offering people in the Portsmouth area two day-long opportunities to attend a practical [… read more ]

Horrors of Nuclear War Confronted at University of Portsmouth Events

11th July 2025

The horrors of nuclear war will be confronted at a series of events at the University of Portsmouth and Southsea Library on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (15-17 July). Among the speakers will be Tom Unterrainer, [… read more ]

Island City Voices: Symbolic Phonecalls from Gaza

4th July 2025

Filmmaker and journalist Habibur Rahman explains how a disconnected telephone is moving around Portsmouth as a symbolic tool for connecting people and as a means of documenting powerful local stories. Based on the principle [… read more ]

His Brightest Hour: A Pompey Man Flies a Spitfire Eighty Years After the Battle of Britain

29th September 2025

Travel writer and planetary modeller David Angus has just realised a lifelong dream: to fly a Spitfire. This is the story of that trip. It was a dual controlled Spitfire. The real pilot in the [… read more ]

Grief, My Father and Home

16th June 2025

On Father’s Day Sian Rees was thinking of her late dad Gareth and reflecting on her process of grief. I just read a piece of your writing. You were reflecting on home and what that [… read more ]

Pompey Bar Room Banter 8: Smouldering Eric and the Fifth Hants

4th January 2025

The Fifth Hants Volunteer Arms – or the Fifth Hants as it is frequently referred to – stands tall in the landscape, and whilst not dominating the street, it is surely synonymous with it. It [… read more ]