A politician’s open mouth

Barney Arathoon At any time of day you will find at least seven fixed-gear bicycles parked outside the Belle Isle. The owners of these bikes will be inside, Red Stripe lager or some exotic, micro-brewed, fruity [… read more ]

Shonagh Dillon, CEO of Portsmouth-based charity Aurora New Dawn, talks to Sarah Cheverton about how the virus is increasing danger for victims, and how already under-funded organisations like Aurora are changing the way they work [… read more ]

Playwright and songwriter John Bartlett re-tells a darkly comic anecdote his grandmother recounted to him about her school days in late Victorian Portsmouth. “With moi hand on meself what ‘ave oi ‘ere? This is moi  sweaty-boxer moi souvenir [… read more ]