Like many other arts organisations around Britain, Portsmouth’s Aspex Gallery is adapting to the unparalleled new landscape that COVID-19 has shaped. S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes discusses sustainability, new tech solutions and the changing role [… read more ]
Local resident and photographer John Callaway explores the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on grassroots music venues, alongside some of his stunning photography. Every photograph in this post was taken in the past twelve months at a [… read more ]
Charity Reunite Families UK, which campaigns for ‘fair family immigration policy’ shares an open letter calling on Boris Johnson to bring an end to the ‘Minimum Income Requirement policy’ which they state ‘is causing devastation’ [… read more ]
It is now clear that the University of Portsmouth is planning to reduce its English Literature department from 12 to five full-time staff – a massive 58% cut. The UoP English Literature team share the [… read more ]
Carolyn Barber of Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, and local researcher and social entrepreneur, shares advice and resources on how to manage your mental health in lockdown. This week, Carolyn uses Toy Story to talk about [… read more ]
Contributing Editor and community reporter, Paris Ali-Pilling reports about the ongoing campaign to #SaveIndependentNews, created by the Independent Community News Network in partnership with the Public Interest News Foundation. The Independent Community News Network (ICNN) [… read more ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon discuss the 72nd birthday of the NHS, misreporting of a local lockdown, leaving the EU, and the [… read more ]
Local resident and photographer John Callaway, gives us a glimpse into Portsmouth’s lockdown with his stunning photography of Southsea seafront. Maybe there’s a story here… Remote surveillance, lockdowns, ambiguous guidance and instruction, machinery of unknown origin and [… read more ]
Hundreds of residents across Hampshire are to be asked how they think police officers have handled the challenge of enforcing new rules during the COVID-19 lockdown – with the results used to devise strategies for [… read more ]
Ian Morris continues his new weekly column, and after reading Ian Fleming’s Bond novel Moonraker, considers the changing nature of language over time. Does erasing evidence of past prejudice run the risk we forget it ever [… read more ]
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