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.
Fiction
Portal Double Zero Part I
By Jon Crout Otto staggered to the toilets, as much for shelter as to answer a call of nature. Those recently reformed, sing-along baldies were coming to the end of their over-familiar set, and he [… read more ]
Culture
Portsmouth Caption Challenge #2
Round 2 of our caption competition comes from local resident Peter McIver, who provided us with captions for 3 of our favourite images here on S&C. “Does my bum look big in this? Let me [… read more ]
Fiction
Critical Hob-Nobality and Ethno-Dishcourses of Snack Consumption
S&C proudly presents the transcript of last week’s special guest lecture by Professor Ethel Tulala-Smith to the Faculty of Post-transcultural Trans-post-culturalism at the Southsea Institute of Creatindustry Knowledgehow (SICK). There is a detail. A marginal [… read more ]