Five months after the general election, many – including Rosy Bremer – are still reeling from the result. Ever since the election, it’s as if the country is going through the aftermath of a bad teenage [… read more ]
Daniel Malice recalls how his eyes were opened to the world after becoming a student at the University of Portsmouth. Growing up next to the sea in Norfolk, I assumed all coastal towns around England [… read more ]
In the first of an insightful two-part series, University of Portsmouth senior lecturer and animation expert Van Norris assesses Fritz the Cat director Ralph Bakshi’s contribution to modern satire. When asked to give a talk [… read more ]
By Jon Crout. It is 1992. It is Fudger’s birthday, and we are sat in his shed, hiding from his mum. She’s got the hump because he re-enacted Anderton’s goal at Highbury in her lounge [… read more ]
Chad Wilkinson explores Ingress, a global augmented reality online role playing game with a keen following in Portsmouth. A mass of hooded figures form a convoy outside Portsmouth’s Guildhall. Heads and shoulders bowled forwards, shielding [… read more ]
Although gay marriage may be moving UK society closer to equality for the LGBT community, Robert Angus argues we still have some way to go to tackle homophobia in Portsmouth. Many people in the UK [… read more ]
Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is dividing Portsmouth Labour Party – many welcome the return to socialism, others are resigning in disgust. Taking a more nuanced view, Portsmouth University lecturer Stephen Harper wonders whether one man – however progressive [… read more ]
By Alison Habens Part II (Part I can be found here) This is a story of four thousand words. When Tripp and Crowley had moved on to torment another soul, I was able to read [… read more ]
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In the next instalment of his memoirs, local actor and playwright John Bartlett recalls halcyon summers, a family rivalry and revenge exacted with an ice-cream cone… My favourite room in my grandparents’ house had a [… read more ]
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