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
Local Charity Signs Pledge to Reject Funding from Tommy Robinson
The CEO of Portsmouth-based charity Aurora New Dawn has signed an open letter from academics, activists and charities working to end sexual abuse, rejecting funding offered by Tommy Robinson as part of his European Election [… read more ]
Events
S&C Presents… Taking the P Out of Pompey: Satire in a Dangerous Age
‘Ours is a useful trade, a worthy calling. With all its lightness and frivolity, it has one serious purpose, one aim, one speciality, and it is constant to it: the deriding of shams, the exposure [… read more ]
Fiction
Fresh off the Boat
Laszlo Dumitrescu Hello, people of Portsmouth, the English Riviera, my fellow Europeans. I arrive in your city from Romania to make a better life for my family. The weather was shining when we approach the [… read more ]