The University of Portsmouth (UoP) branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has voted overwhelmingly for a motion calling for the university to “sever all ties – financial and otherwise – with all external [… read more ]
Due to lack of accountability and regulation, Southern Water has been getting away with sewage dumping, overcharging and underinvestment in its infrastructure. We don’t have to accept this, writes local activist Alan Burgess. It is [… read more ]
Local resident Rachel Claire Birchley gives a personal and passionate account of her experience of attending the Extinction Rebellion (XR) mass protest in London in April 2023, part of XR’s ‘Unite to Survive’ campaign, centring [… read more ]
Pariah Garrie gives us the lowdown on the motley crew of contenders for the Tory leadership now that Boris is on his way out. The following deck of cards has turned to a pack of [… read more ]
In light of recent electoral results in Northern Ireland and the upcoming Queen’s Jubilee, writer and postgraduate student Claire Udy considers how British identity is shaped by assumptions about not only the past but the [… read more ]
Since he was first elected to the Portsmouth South constituency in 2017, Stephen Morgan has almost always voted in parliament with the Labour leadership. But his loyalty to Keir Starmer, who since 2020 has taken [… read more ]
In December 2021, Portsmouth political blogger Pariah Garrie was one of perhaps up to a thousand people across the UK to be expelled from the Labour Party as part of the Starmer leadership’s clampdown on members expressing support [… read more ]
Over the weekend of 16th/17th October 2021, the FiLiA feminist conference took place at Portsmouth Guildhall, while outside demonstrators gathered to protest in support of trans rights at the Fly the Flag demonstration. Here, Deborah [… read more ]
Over the weekend of 16th/17th October 2021, the FiLiA feminist conference took place at Portsmouth Guildhall, while outside demonstrators gathered to protest in support of trans rights at the Fly the Flag demonstration. Here, Rosy [… read more ]
A little over a year ago, the government announced the Eat Out to Help Out scheme to encourage the British public to spend more money in restaurants after the first pandemic lockdown. Unfortunately, the programme [… read more ]
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