Dr Stephen Harper, media studies lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), argues that Covid-related misinformation is a product of our paranoid and resentful age of [… read more ]
Last week we shared an article on our Facebook page from the Guardian reporting that sales of toilet paper had soared by 23% in a week. Referring to the panic buying that occurred earlier this [… read more ]
In the second part of her interview with S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes, Cllr Claire Udy, Leader of the Progressive Portsmouth People Group on Portsmouth City Council, discusses workplace safety, police enforcement of the lockdown [… read more ]
S&C regular and Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) member Stephen Harper reflects on some of the hypocrisy, sensationalism and inaccuracy of the UK media’s coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps I’m not the best [… read more ]
Local residents and a local councillor recently highlighted the difference in price for bus fares in Portsmouth and Southampton, raising the issue of local public transport fast becoming unaffordable. The national picture is no better. [… read more ]
As election time approaches, Stephen Harper of the Socialist Party of Great Britain sees no meaningful differences between the candidates however progressive they purport to be. The General Election draws near, the party propaganda machines [… read more ]
By Wendy Metcalfe ‘Authentic success is the casting-off of the chains of conspicuous consumption. It is the rejection of the idea that buying more “stuff” makes us happy. Authentic success lies in the rediscovery of [… read more ]
At the Pens of the Earth launch night, Nicholas Sebley from Extinction Rebellion talked about the possibilities and challenges of transforming Portsmouth into a new city by 2030. The way I see it, there are [… read more ]
Councillor Claire Udy gives her unflinching opinion on the closure of Knight & Lee, a public vigil for a department store, and ‘the death of the high street’. ‘I think I’ve been there three times in [… read more ]
At the time of writing, the YouTube videos of the recent debate between the academics Jordan B. Peterson and Slavoj Žižek have attracted well over two million views. Dr Stephen Harper reflects on their mixed [… read more ]
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