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 ]
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 ]
Wild Thyme Wholefoods are well known across Portsmouth as Southsea’s go-to place for vegan, natural and organic food, but less well known is that it’s a worker co-operative. Co-operative member Stuart Mills reports. Note: This [… read more ]
Contrary to the dominant view, Johann Hari’s important new book Lost Connections argues that depression is caused largely by social factors. University of Portsmouth Senior Lecturer and author of Madness, Power and the Media, Dr [… read more ]
Jack Caramac, the Portsmouth-based JPEG jammer and visual satirist, turns his sights on finance, corruption and tax evasion. Images by Jack Caramac. You can follow him live and unleashed on Twitter.
Looking up from the base of the tower I see a blue rectangle in the viewing deck one hundred metres above me. The swoop of the sails’ belly is white against the sky. Red lights [… read more ]
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