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Two More Poems by Tina MacNaughton

5th February 2026

Warm Well, you can get it all online now can’t you? they said as Debenhams closed with a sigh Great Aunt Doris visited the café every Saturday I saw her once tray piled high with [… read more ]

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Two Poems for Gaza

5th November 2025

Writers and S&C Cultural Editors Sue Harper and Paul Valentine present two poems both entitled ‘Gaza’.    Sue Harper   Yahweh knocks on your door   there is blood in his hair his teeth are [… read more ]

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Why I Write: A poem by Ivana Domozetska

13th August 2025

Can you learn how to be a good writer? Yes and no. You can learn the skill, but you can’t learn the creativity. A good writer has creativity, thoughts, feelings, passion. A good writer has [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘The Sorrows’ by Amanda Garrie

1st June 2025

There are ten days to go before the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event and tickets are still available. In advance of the event, which is brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, the [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘Gaza’ by Paul Valentine

1st June 2025

There are ten days to go before the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event and tickets are still available. In advance of the event, which is brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, the [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘Complicit’ by Deborah Shaw

28th May 2025

In advance of the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event, brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, the University of Portsmouth, the Universities of Sanctuary and Unite the Union, we present a poem by writer and academic [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘Gaza’ by Sue Harper

27th May 2025

In advance of the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event, brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, staff and students at the University of Portsmouth, the Universities of Sanctuary and Unite the Union, we present a poem [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Performers for Palestine: ‘The Key’ by Richard Peirce

26th May 2025

In advance of the Portsmouth Performers for Palestine event, brought to you in association with Star & Crescent, the University of Portsmouth, the Universities of Sanctuary and Unite the Union, we present a poem by [… read more ]

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Ode to Pompey: A Poem

28th October 2024

By Carole Carrell   Born in Pompey was I, with the Luftwaffe on its way, Elm Grove it was, number 27A. There came bomb sites on which to play, full of butterflies, nettles and dens, [… read more ]

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Two Poems by Tina Cathleen MacNaughton

19th October 2024

Penhale Road when I was a girl we played in that street skipped along pavements hopscotched chalky squares trickled shiny, coloured marbles along broken slabs when I was a girl we zigzagged around the occasional [… 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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‘We Were Having None of It!’ Activists Voice Concerns at Southern Water Meeting

2nd February 2026

David Langley was one of a quintet activists who attended a meeting with Southern Water in Waterlooville on 30th January. Here he tells us what happened. I am pleased to report that we were well [… read more ]

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Together is Stronger: Portsmouth Climate Choir at the Green Forum

2nd February 2026

Portsmouth Climate Choir is part of a national movement called the Climate Choir Movement, which was founded with the intention of using the power of music to draw attention to critical environmental issues and mobilise [… read more ]

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Man Arrested At Protest Outside Stephen Morgan’s Office and Released Without Charge

2nd January 2026

A Portsmouth man was arrested yesterday outside the office of local MP and Labour Friends of Israel member, Stephen Morgan, under the Terrorism Act 2000. The man was holding a sign reading ‘Palestine Action are [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Palestine Hunger Strike Protestors Step Up Pressure on Local MP

30th December 2025

For the second day this week, Portsmouth South constituents have demonstrated outside their MP Stephen Morgan’s office. George Hibberd reports. The protestors are demanding that Morgan, a member of Labour Friends of Israel and a recipient [… read more ]

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