Poetry
What Next?
by Majid Dhana. In these times as we sit back and see the reality of the world changing before our teary eyes, emotions, reactions, mixed with so much uncertainty – Doubt-indecision-insecurity in the air. [… read more ]
Climate change
Culture
Climate Change Poses a Particular Threat to Portsmouth
A leading Portsmouth environmentalist has spoken out about concerns for our city following the premier of a new film by Sir David Attenborough. Peter Gruner reports. A Life on Our Planet, which deals in part [… read more ]
Politics
Pompey Politics Podcast: Want a Slice of the Pie?
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon are joined by David Simpson to talk about the concept of participatory budgets, how do they work? [… read more ]
Politics
The (Lib Dem) Leadership Contest Nobody’s Heard Of?
Local Liberal Democrat party member, Simon Sansbury, who also stood for the party in the last local council elections, explores the party’s ongoing leadership contest and weighs up who should get his vote. The starting [… read more ]
Memoir
Lockdown Life: ‘Sometimes You’ve Just Got to Dance Like an Idiot’
Amberley Rankin, a student at Portsmouth College, looks back over her time in lockdown, the bad and the good, and reflects on what we might learn when this is all over. It’s one of those [… read more ]
Fiction
A Sliver of Life
By Sue Shipp We’d just sat down from our labours when Old Roy appeared on the grass path running between the allotments, eating a nectarine, the other hand hidden behind his back. He slopped along [… read more ]
Fiction
After the Storm
by ‘SC’ All Souls’ Day, approaching dusk. Park regulars nodded greetings as their dogs sniffed around each other. Claire would probably have recognised some of them, perhaps on smiling, chatting or patting terms. Maybe even [… read more ]
Social Issues
It’s Not (Always) Expensive Being Green in Pompey
Emma Murphy, co-editor of Portsmouth Green Party’s Shades of Green blog, shares the challenges and opportunities of combining environmentally-friendly living with a tight budget. You may not know this about me, but I am really, [… read more ]
Social Issues
The Climate Emergency: What Could Be Done If We All Worked Together?
Zoë Ingram, student at Havant and South Downs College, asks why young people seem more concerned with the climate emergency. Climate change can be a widely overshadowed issue when it comes to election coverage, but [… read more ]
Editorials
GE2019: A Meditative Approach to the Election
Community reporter and founder of Pens of the Earth, Helen Salsbury, shares the benefits of meditation during the current local election campaign. I learnt a long time ago that I am not a political activist. [… read more ]