Meditations on Marx, Pompey architecture and translating the local lingo. Local resident Mike Gumbrell turns his satirical eye to some of Pompey’s unique foibles.
News
Gosport Voter ID: ‘A Solution in Search of a Problem’?
Rosy Bremer – part of our #ReclaimTheNews local journalism training team – takes a satirical look at the piloting of voter ID in Gosport last week, one of only five places in the country to [… read more ]
Fiction
A Leak from a Sick Institute
An anonymous whistleblower recently sent S&C a leaked copy of the annual report to the Board of Governors of the Southsea Institute of Creatindustry Knowledgehow (SICK), delivered by Vice-Chancellor Heister Hoare-O’Mammon. Ladies, gentlemen, bishops, retired [… read more ]
Memoir
A Tory Cobweb Speaks
With due caution – and a small amount of terror – Star & Crescent presents a new regular column by Sir Eugene Nicks QC, KBE, Policy Advisor to the All-Portsea Conservative, Regressive and Imperial Association (established [… read more ]