Christine Lawrence has been going out onto the streets of Portsmouth to meet the extraordinary people who live and work here. Trying to explore areas that are often neglected by those promoting the city, she has discovered [… read more ]
As a woman, a mother, a cancer sufferer and a mental health patient, Maddie Wallace is a frontline victim of the Tories’ austerity measures. Here she pinpoints the damage that’s been done by ideologically-driven cuts and what we [… read more ]
Putting her own political views aside, Oriana Bevan calls for calm and pragmatism in this uncertain post-Brexit world. Brexit has been a Pandora’s box, unleashing a whole host of new crises for British politics. Most people at the forefront [… read more ]
Charlotte Comley reports on her recent experiences as the Project Manager for Portsmouth Plugged In, a collaboration between writers and filmmakers. The theme of this year’s Portsmouth Festivities was Electricity, and for ten days the [… read more ]
This child’s tricycle is like most others, with one important difference. It could change someone’s life. By Laura Stanley, with Sarah Cheverton. Alyssa Mae, her 2 sisters and her parents, Zoe and Colin, are like [… read more ]
By Christine Lawrence. It was just before dawn on a damp November night. Joe walked home after a most difficult night shift. Normally he loved the walk home in the dark. It gave him a [… read more ]
(Blackberry brambles can be stripped of their thorns and used to fashion baskets and other useful artefacts). The first man clips off her thorns one by one, turns her placid and tractable, cuts her [… read more ]
Portsmouth gamer Toxic Buddha takes on a thrilling new animated game, INSIDE, named “Best Independent Game” in the Game Critics Awards. INSIDE follows the journey of a small boy running from a series of mysterious [… read more ]
Portsmouth-based blogger and critic Jordan Osborne looks at the less romantic aspects of Beat icon Jack Kerouac’s cultural legacy. ‘What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you [… read more ]
Laszlo Dumitrescu returns, and he’s made some interesting and powerful friends. In my first month I have made many friends in the business and rotary circles of Portsmouth. On my desk there is photograph [… read more ]
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