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Policing the Pandemic: New Research to Plan for a Future Crisis

6th July 2020

Hundreds of residents across Hampshire are to be asked how they think police officers have handled the challenge of enforcing new rules during the COVID-19 lockdown – with the results used to devise strategies for [… read more ]

Something for the Weekend: On Language and Pop Culture Prejudices

3rd July 2020

Ian Morris continues his new weekly column, and after reading Ian Fleming’s Bond novel Moonraker, considers the changing nature of language over time. Does erasing evidence of past prejudice run the risk we forget it ever [… read more ]

Pre-Drinks at the Precipice: A Student’s View of the COVID-19 Lockdown

1st July 2020

COVID-19’s arrival in Portsmouth feels like a long time ago. University of Portsmouth creative writing student, Morgan Turner, recounts that unnerving time – and how he dealt with the challenges that followed. With a Co-op [… read more ]

Pompey Politics Podcast: Let’s Grab a Beer

30th June 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon talk about pubs reopening on 4th July and ask if Portsmouth residents will be heading back to [... read more ]
Pompey Politics Podcast: Do We Value Our Democracies?

9th June 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon talk about recent events in the USA, threats from President Trump to ‘send in the military’ and [... read more ]

S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 66 and Ian shares some of his best – and worst – reads from [… read more ]

Book Review: The Dark Nest by Sue Harper

21st May 2020

S&C Arts Correspondent Paul Valentine is impressed by a funny, irreverent, macabre and inventive new book of short stories by Sue Harper, local author and Portsmouth University Emeritus Professor of Film History. If you thought [… read more ]

89 Not Out: Day 57, Relish Each Moment

12th May 2020

S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 57 and Ian leaves the controversial world of left vs right politics to tackle [… read more ]

Hidden Places Around Portsmouth: Blue Sky Thinking

23rd June 2020

Local resident and photographer John Callaway, gives us a glimpse into the little known history of Portsmouth and the surrounding area, alongside some of his stunning photography. In this essay, John heads to Portsdown Hill, taking in [… read more ]

Hidden Places Around Portsmouth: A Miller’s Tale

8th June 2020

Local resident and photographer John Callaway, gives us a glimpse into the little known history of Portsmouth and the surrounding area, alongside some of his stunning photography. In this essay, he heads to Old Bedhampton following the [… read more ]

The Tricorn: An Architectural Marvel in Brutalism

3rd June 2020

Tom Benjamin remembers the Tricorn and showcases his stunning photography of its unique architecture, documenting its change from a shopping and market centre to a ‘temporary’ car park. The Tricorn was a car park situated [… read more ]

Pompey Politics Podcast: Let’s Grab a Beer

Pompey Politics Podcast: Do We Value Our Democracies?

89 Not Out: Day 66, There’s Nothing Like a Good (Audio)Book

Book Review: The Dark Nest by Sue Harper

Hidden Places Around Portsmouth: Blue Sky Thinking

Hidden Places Around Portsmouth: A Miller’s Tale

The Tricorn: An Architectural Marvel in Brutalism

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