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Month: May 2020

Memoir

Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 74, When a Toddler Complains

29th May 2020

Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Day 74, and A Maddie’s youngest has initiated a [… read more ]

Memoir

89 Not Out: Day 74, A Time to Focus on Small Acts of Kindness

29th May 2020

S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 74 and Ian ends the week by choosing to focus on the positive things [… read more ]

Social Issues

Agree With Them or Not, Unpaid Roles Should Still Be Visible to All

29th May 2020

Express FM and professional DJ Robbie James speaks about the benefits of having unpaid roles, for community organisations and their volunteers. ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’ – a term I became familiar [… read more ]

Memoir

Life in Lockdown: What Happened to the ‘Best Days of My Life’?

29th May 2020

Lois Bishop, a student at Portsmouth College, looks back at the beginning of lockdown, when college closed and explains her daily routine alongside her sister, while their mother – a key worker – is at [… read more ]

Memoir

Being Kind to Yourself: Looking Back at Mental Health Awareness Week

29th May 2020

Maria Ganderton writes for Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, about the importance of being kind to ourselves, building on the theme of last week’s Mental Health Awareness Week: kindness. For Mental Health Awareness week, I [… read more ]

Memoir

Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 73, What’s Non Violent Resistance?

28th May 2020

Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Day 73, and Maddie goes back [… read more ]

Memoir

89 Not Out: Day 73, A Long Day In Lockdown

28th May 2020

S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 73, and Ian hits a stressful day with work, can a free run with [… read more ]

Culture

Express FM: Interview with Pompey’s Christian Burgess

28th May 2020

Every week, Express FM runs a live show dedicated to news about the Coronavirus in Portsmouth, as Robbie James interviews a range of local people, including politicians, experts, residents and businesses. On 20th May, Robbie [… read more ]

Culture

Hidden Places Around Portsmouth: The Mysteries of the Marshes

28th May 2020

Local resident and photographer John Callaway, gives us a glimpse into the little known history of Portsmouth and the surrounding area, alongside some of his stunning photography. In this essay, he heads to Farlington Marshes. Today felt [… read more ]

Memoir

Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 72, The Age of Dissent

27th May 2020

Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Day 72, and S has reached [… read more ]

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Planetbuilding Blues: Space and Time Projects

9th April 2026

  Writer and planetary modeller David Angus details his latest projects, including Time Travel (and Dinosaurs) in Gosport. I’ve worked a lot on Jupiter’s moons, as you do. Callisto has already been mentioned in earlier [… read more ]

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Pompey Climate Choir Protests Outside Barclays Bank

27th March 2026

Portsmouth Climate Choir performed their song ‘We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank’ outside Barclays in Portsmouth in collaboration with PSC and Trans Pride Portsmouth. Viola Langley reports. Members of Portsmouth Climate Choir sang a rousing rendition [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Event Unites Community on the Climate Emergency

27th March 2026

Inflation. High food and energy bills. Food banks. War. Genocide. We live in dark times, but a glimmer of hope can be found through spirit and community. On a chilly but sublime Thursday evening in [… read more ]

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‘The DWP Saved £180 Billion and They Can’t Pay Us £10 Billion’: Portsmouth WASPI Women Protest Pension Injustice

17th March 2026

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) is a campaign group advocating for compensation from the Department for Work and Pensions for its failure to properly inform women of increases to their state pension age. [… read more ]

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Portsmouth-based Palestinian Student and Family in Need of Financial Help

2nd February 2026

Abedelraheem Hamad is a talented Chevening scholar who was evacuated from Gaza by the British government to study for a Masters in Crisis and Disaster Management at the University of Portsmouth in September 2025. Over [… read more ]

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