In a new book, Union Jackboot, Portsmouth University visiting lecturer Matt Alford interviews the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research’s TJ Coles, an oppositional political commentator and author of Britain’s Secret Wars, a critique of modern [… read more ]
In a new book, Union Jackboot, Portsmouth University visiting lecturer Matt Alford interviews the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research’s TJ Coles, an oppositional political commentator and author of The Great Brexit Swindle. The following is [… read more ]
S&C Community Reporter Andrew Hurdle revisits the 2018 Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival in this exclusive photo essay. It’s Sunday 22nd July 2018 and I’m in the small village of Tolpuddle, Dorset. The main road is closed, [… read more ]
S&C regular contributor Dianna Djokey interviews Celia Meiras, who plays Hanna in Hannah and Hanna in Dreamland, a play by John Retallack being staged at the New Theatre Royal on 16th October. The play has [… read more ]
Journalism has always been a loose extension of establishment power, but something has changed in recent years, argues John Pilger. This article is an amended version of the foreword to Propaganda Blitz: How the Corporate Media [… read more ]
On 10th July 2018, Shamira A. Meghani came to Portsmouth to contribute to a panel discussion for Hope not Hate Portsmouth on the importance of connection over hate and division. S&C is delighted to share [… read more ]
Reclaim the News participant and part of our new Community Reporting team, Helen Salsbury, reports on the annual South Downs Green Fair and what Portsmouth can learn from it. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. Portsmouth [… read more ]
The West’s claim to moral superiority and its assumption of the role of ‘world’s policeman’ are largely derived from a classical approach to liberalism. In short, the argument is that our societies are more liberal [… read more ]
Portsmouth City Council (PCC) recently ran a survey formulated by American private health firm, Insignia Health, on ‘patient activation’. A member of S&C’s Reclaim The News team (who wishes to remain anonymous) has investigated what [… read more ]
Reclaim the News team member Rosy Bremer reflects on the commercialisation of higher education as she interviews Eleanor Martin of Khayaal Theatre following a recent symposium at the University of Portsmouth. A woman with very [… read more ]
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