Chair of Portsmouth Labour Party’s Housing Policy Forum Cal Corkery asks why a housing association operating locally is ignoring the council’s Tenancy Strategy. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. On 14th February, Southern Housing Group, a [… read more ]
Kimberly Barrett, founder of Keep Milton Green recently gave a deputation to Portsmouth City Council calling for greater local transparency on why property developers aren’t including affordable housing in their developments. Here she expands on [… read more ]
Cameron Collins recounts his time living on the streets, how those more fortunate treated him and what can be done about a huge social problem that no government ever seems able to solve. There’s nothing [… read more ]
John Kennedy, Brexit Party candidate for Portsmouth South, gives his answers to the five questions recently submitted by S&C readers to all local candidates in the 2019 election. We recently asked S&C readers and social [… read more ]
On 9 July, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam declared that a widely unpopular extradition bill, which had already been suspended by the Hong Kong government, was ‘dead’ – albeit not formally withdrawn, as most [… read more ]
Councillor Claire Udy gives her unflinching opinion on the closure of Knight & Lee, a public vigil for a department store, and ‘the death of the high street’. ‘I think I’ve been there three times in [… read more ]
The subject of Brexit comes up in the media every day, but there’s very little information on how it will affect the city. Community reporter Rosy Bremer decided to find out. Additional reporting by Sarah [… read more ]
In partnership with the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Star & Crescent presents an evening of discussion and debate exploring the current state and importance of news media in Portsmouth, and it’s FREE. 5th March 2018, [… read more ]
Darren Sanders, Liberal Democrat candidate for Portsmouth North, talks to Mark Wright about the need for affordable housing in Portsmouth, the importance of consulting the British public on any Brexit deal and the function of alternative, hyperlocal news organisations [… read more ]
In the second part of Katie Roberts’ interview, Jon Woods of Portsmouth Against the Cuts Together and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), discusses the ‘obscenity’ of Trident, the risks of tactical voting and the [… read more ]
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