Most of us ignore those shady emails offering us dubious investment opportunities in far-flung lands. But not the Portsmouth poet Richard Williams. December 2nd 2015 Dear Friend, I am the first son of the late Mobutu Sese Seko, [… read more ]
As local junior doctors prepare to join their colleagues across the country for next week’s strike action, Dr V. Wagner is raising awareness of the government’s ongoing attack on our health service – collating the [… read more ]
Historian Mick Collins exalts a little-known hero of Portsmouth cinema architecture and post-war reconstruction. Six years ago I was forced to take early retirement from a job that I really enjoyed. It was quite a blow [… read more ]
Tom Clement gets to the bottom of the rumours and speculations surrounding one of gaming’s greatest characters. Lara Croft is one of the world’s most recognisable video game characters, and 2016 marks her twentieth birthday. [… read more ]
University of Portsmouth student Yordana Shopova examines how Instagram conjures an unrealistic image of the #perfectlife. What’s the first thing we do when we open our eyes in the morning? Go to the bathroom? Mmm… in a [… read more ]
Luke Ludbrook weighs up a controversial proposal to tackle drink driving both nationally and locally. I’m working behind the bar at a Portsmouth wake – a routine part of my job. It’s early afternoon and the [… read more ]
Portsmouth University librarian Lizzie Wildgoose had a surreal surprise when she dropped in to her local branch of Blackwells the other day. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, or should that read [… read more ]
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 ]
By Claire Willcox For those not yet in the know, Melbourne’s The Cat Empire seamlessly blend a range of musical genres – reggae, turntablism, jazz, Latin American and ska – into an ear-pleasing, dance-inducing, mash-up. They [… read more ]
I am writing to seek your advice about the upcoming council elections. I am a proud socialist and one of the 251,417 people who voted you in as leader of the Labour Party last August. [… read more ]
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