Jenifer Flintoft of the Portsmouth and South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSDPSC) writes about the recent work of the local campaign and the group’s forthcoming events. PSDPSC is an active group of local people aiming [… read more ]
At two schools in Portsmouth, NUT members have taken the initiative to combat their pupils’ poverty, reports The Teacher. But they are having to fork out their own money to meet the costs. The Primary [… read more ]
Only 3% of the UK’s money actually exists, highlights Chris Kennett of Positive Money Portsmouth, which was established in the midst of the recession to raise awareness of the national Positive Money campaign. Positive Money [… read more ]
Cartoon by Owen Devine. Check out more of Owen’s work at his website, Devine Comedy.
A short story by Matt Wingett ‘Observe the way in which the victim is holding the napkin, Jenkins,’ said The Legend, drawing on his meerschaum as they stood over a corpse that lay sprawled in [… read more ]
A few summers ago, Gareth Rees was working as a cleaner at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth. After witnessing bullying, incompetence and inefficiency, he was shocked to learn that the cruel and humourless management had made him [… read more ]
During the early 1990s, Simon Sykes worked on Cultural Integration and Awareness Programmes for the Executive of the first ever Franco-British joint venture, which was based in Portsmouth. These diary extracts offer an insight into [… read more ]
Michael Smith gives us a student’s eye view of a music festival that has become a Southsea institution. I have four objectives today. The first is to see Honeyblood, a female duo of guitar and drums specialising [… read more ]
Rosy Moorhead talks to Mark Thomas about his new show, Bravo Figaro, which played at Fareham’s Ashcroft Arts Centre on 24th January 2015. Mark Thomas’ dad was a difficult man. A ‘grumpy bastard’ is actually [… read more ]
From time to time, Sarah Cheverton is called upon by local authorities to do communications work, often when there’s a particularly hot potato that officers are flipping nervously amongst each other. Occasionally, the nature of these complaints [… read more ]
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