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Pompey Politics Podcast: We Don’t Need No Education

26th May 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon chance their luck on their first double interview with guests Cllr Suzy Horton (Lib Dem) & Cllr [… read more ]

What Are the Local Tech Solutions to the COVID Lockdown and After?

26th May 2020

In light of a new survey indicating that half of British employees will likely be working more remotely and flexibly after the COVID-19 lockdown ends, S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes talks to Marc Cook about [… read more ]

Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 67, Negative Self-Talk is Rife

22nd May 2020

Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Day 67, and Maddie has noticed [… read more ]

What Are the Local Tech Solutions to the COVID Lockdown and After?

26th May 2020

In light of a new survey indicating that half of British employees will likely be working more remotely and flexibly after the COVID-19 lockdown ends, S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes talks to Marc Cook about [... read more ]
Learning Disabilities, Shielding and Government Guidelines

22nd May 2020

Local resident and photographer John Callaway gives an insight into what the government’s ‘one size fits all’ COVID-19 guidance means for someone with a learning disability and physical health conditions, and how it can inadvertently set [... read more ]

Documentary in Colour: From the Tricorn to the Spinnaker Tower

26th May 2020

Tom Benjamin remembers the Tricorn and Spinnaker Tower as they were in 2004, as he revisits a college photography project documenting change in the local area. In early 2004 I was studying photography at college [… read more ]

89 Not Out: Day 67, When Will the Telly Run Out?

22nd 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 67, and Ian contemplates the future of television, as we used to know it. [… read more ]

Coronavirus Care Home

22nd May 2020

Deborah Shaw Oh look! That’s me in the picture! Always wanted to have my photo in the paper That’s me Just sitting Peacefully Passively Waiting for death Oh look! That’s me in the picture [… read more ]

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

21st 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 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 ]

Pompey Politics Podcast: We Don’t Need No Education

Pompey Politics Podcast: We Don’t Need No Education

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Documentary in Colour: From the Tricorn to the Spinnaker Tower

89 Not Out: Day 67, When Will the Telly Run Out?

Coronavirus Care Home

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

Book Review: The Dark Nest by Sue Harper

Documentary in Colour: From the Tricorn to the Spinnaker Tower

89 Not Out: Day 67, When Will the Telly Run Out?

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