This is the first of a series of interviews the Star & Crescent will be running with Shonagh Dillon, Chief Executive of Aurora New Dawn, a charity working with victims and survivors of domestic and [… read more ]
Tom Sykes takes a brief look at some of the more incendiary moments in Portsmouth’s long and rich radical history. 1450 – After public protests against his high taxation policy and his refusal to pay local [… read more ]
Hannah McKellar-Ricketts considers the rise of UKIP and questions the scapegoating of immigrants for wider social problems in our city. Excuse me, but if immigration is such a big problem in Portsmouth, then why am I enjoying [… read more ]
In this regular feature, we select ten stories about Portsmouth taken from the national media. Huffington Post, ‘History is Now’ at Hayward Gallery searches for British identity Portsmouth journalist, Christine Lord, and her campaign for [… read more ]
Southsea resident, Tony Brown, joined his neighbours to protest the opening of a nightclub in a residential area. Together, this unlikely community group took on the nightclub industry to fight for their neighbourhood, and won. [… read more ]
Jenifer Flintoft of the Portsmouth and South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSDPSC) writes about the recent work of the local campaign and the group’s forthcoming events. PSDPSC is an active group of local people aiming [… read more ]
Michael Smith gives us a student’s eye view of a music festival that has become a Southsea institution. I have four objectives today. The first is to see Honeyblood, a female duo of guitar and drums specialising [… read more ]
There aren’t too many politically progressive gay Catholic priests around. But Sarah Cheverton met two of them – and they’re married to one another. I have a confession. I haven’t been to a church service since [… read more ]
Throughout his presidency, Nelson Mandela attended Johannesburg’s Park Lane Clinic where he got to know Tim Groom, a veteran nurse and anti-Apartheid campaigner who has since settled in Portsmouth. In this exclusive interview with Tom Sykes, Tim argues that [… read more ]
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