In advance of his lecture at the University of Portsmouth’s Global Week on 19th March at 5pm at the Eldon Building, Filipino poet, journalist and activist Gene Alcantara discusses the unprecedented crisis engulfing his home [… read more ]
Tomorrow (Friday 15th) at 11 am in 106 towns and cities across the UK, schoolchildren, students and young people will take the day off from their work or educational establishments, to say with one voice, [… read more ]
Elizabeth Palmer has been interviewing various teachers of creative writing to gain insights into their motives, methods and approaches. Lately she spoke to Dr Alison Habens, novelist, poet and Head of Creative Writing at the [… read more ]
This abridged log intends to detail discoveries made during multiple journeys from Portsmouth, England to Cornwall, between the Years of Our Lord 1995 and 2018. Generous internal funding allowed me to fully integrate with the [… read more ]
At 7pm tomorrow, Tuesday 5th March, four bands will compete for the chance of a lifetime. Teaming up with the Hot Vox agency, the Isle of Wight Festival is on the hunt for the best [… read more ]
University of Portsmouth lecturers Olly Gruner and Tom Sykes review the latest scholarly study of America’s 45th President, Donald Trump. Prepare to be surprised by its revelations. It’s been widely touted as the defining underdog [… read more ]
A no-deal Brexit risks a hard border between the UK’s Northern Ireland territory and the sovereign Republic of Ireland (Southern Ireland), which is a member of the European Union. Under the Good Friday Agreement (1998), [… read more ]
TJ Coles of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research and co-author of Union Jackboot examines how and why the majority of politicians on both sides of the left-right political spectrum can so consistently vote for [… read more ]
Author and S&C co-founder Tom Sykes‘ new ‘political travelogue’, The Realm of the Punisher, is published today by Signal Books. It records the last nine years’ of Tom’s visits to the Philippines, a country now [… read more ]
By Helen Salsbury I went in search of the plot, in the metaphorical forest, where all the trees looked the same. I went with an older, American Writer, who’d seen it all before. ‘The story,’ [… read more ]
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