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Something for the Weekend: Where Did 2020 Go?

18th December 2020

Ian Morris bids farewell to 2020 in his last column of the year. What does he remember most about this year, for good and bad? It’s the last column of 2020, a  year that began [… read more ]

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‘The Monotony of Every Day’: Being Visually Impaired in a Pandemic

12th August 2020

How has the pandemic affected the working, social and political life for people with increased vulnerability to Covid-19? Our Covid-19 Community Reporter, Rosy Bremer talks to Ian Morris about how his life has changed, during [… read more ]

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Something for the Weekend: It’s Just Not Cricket

17th July 2020

Ian Morris returns with his weekly column after a brief hiatus for his birthday last week, which didn’t go at all to plan, as lockdown restrictions continue to impact on the Blind Cricket Season. There [… read more ]

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89 Not Out: Day 72, A Terrible Defeat

27th May 2020

S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 72, and Ian gives a blow by blow account of the Blind Cricket Quiz [… read more ]

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89 Not Out: Day 71, I Can’t Brand Dominic Cummings ‘Evil’

26th May 2020

‘S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 71, and Ian explains his view as to why Dominic Cummings did not break [… read more ]

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89 Not Out: Day 42, Friday Night is Quiz Night

27th April 2020

S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 42, and the Friday Night Quiz was a wild affair, which Ian’s tastebuds and [… read more ]

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Tim Backhouse Season: Playing the Aborigines at Cricket

9th May 2016

The late great chronicler of Portsmouth Tim Backhouse shares a little-known but momentous event in the long and illustrious history of Hampshire cricket. The first Australian cricket team to visit England was composed of Aborigines. [… read more ]

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Welfare not Warfare: Protest Against Benefits Cuts in Portsmouth

27th June 2025

Portsmouth and District Unite Community is calling a protest against the savage cuts to Personal Independence (PIP) Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), reports trades unionist and activist Alan Burgess. The protest will take [… read more ]

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What’s Missing from Local News in Portsmouth? And How do we Fix it?

11th June 2025

S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton shares insights from her PhD research on the local news crisis in her second article for Indie News Week (9th-16th June 2025). Building on her first article about the local [… read more ]

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What’s Happened to Local News in the UK and What Does it Mean for Portsmouth?

8th June 2025

This week, to mark Indie News Week 2025, S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton is drawing from her recent PhD research on the local news crisis to talk about the dramatic changes to local news over [… read more ]

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Local News Crisis, Portsmouth: Sign the Petition to Help Regenerate Independent News

8th June 2025

This week – 9th-16th June – is Indie News Week, showcasing the importance of funding community-based journalism across the UK. The campaign’s organisers, the Public Interest News Foundation, has launched a petition calling on the government to support independent local news publishers and even up the playing field between independent local publishers and the large news corporations that own most of the UK’s local news titles.  [… read more ]

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Record Breaking £11 Billion is Still Not Enough to End the Special Educational Needs Crisis

17th May 2025

Parents and teachers left ‘overwhelmed’ by the failing SEN system in England’s schools, reports University of Portsmouth journalism student Ivana Domozetska. ‘I will do everything and anything for my daughter to get the support she [… read more ]

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