Fiction
Billy was a Socialist
By Pete Adams Silly Billy Was Billy silly? Billy felt silly. He believed he was a socialist and a committed anti-racist and was now being called an anti-Semite because the Labour Party said so – [… read more ]
Conservative Party
Politics
Pompey Politics Podcast: Nine and a Half Hours, Pt II
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon continue their review of what happened at the nine and a half hour full council meeting. Today [… read more ]
Politics
Pompey Politics Podcast: Nine and a Half Hours
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon review what happened at the nine and a half hour full council meeting. One of the things discussed [… read more ]
Politics
Pompey Politics Podcast: Don’t Panic!
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, they discuss the upcoming US election, the European Court of Human Rights investigation into Labour and if the Government have [… read more ]
Social Issues
Something for the Weekend: Making the Grade?
In the latest in Ian Morris‘ series of weekly columns, Ian defends the government’s modelling of this week’s controversial A-Level results – the first time grades have been determined by an algorithm and not exams [… 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 ]
News
Open Letter Asks PM to End ‘Minimum Income Requirement’
Charity Reunite Families UK, which campaigns for ‘fair family immigration policy’ shares an open letter calling on Boris Johnson to bring an end to the ‘Minimum Income Requirement policy’ which they state ‘is causing devastation’ [… read more ]
Memoir
A Letter to My Dead Parents About COVID-19
Gosport-based writer, adventurer and planetary modeller, David Angus, has found some therapeutic benefits to writing about the current crisis and imagining it as a letter to his late parents. Dear Mum and Dad, Well, things [… read more ]
Politics
‘Risking Their Lives When They Get Back to Work’: Cllr Claire Udy on COVID-19 in Portsmouth (Part 2)
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 ]
Editorials
The Election and Why it Went Wrong for the Left
Almost a month on from the election, the left is still hurting. In a familiar ritual, various political cliques are angrily claiming that everything that happened vindicates their particular perspective. Local writer and activist Simon [… read more ]