Poetry
Your Portsmouth?
By Andrew. “Welcome to your council” reads the dubious sign, And I had not a clue that the thing was all mine! Last time that I checked I had three mobile phones, But surely the [… read more ]
Donna Jones
Memoir
A Tory Cobweb Speaks
With due caution – and a small amount of terror – Star & Crescent presents a new regular column by Sir Eugene Nicks QC, KBE, Policy Advisor to the All-Portsea Conservative, Regressive and Imperial Association (established [… read more ]
News
Portsmouth Tory Dirty Tricks – A Degrading Episode
Shelagh Simmons reflects on the Tory smear plan revelations and concludes that the public deserves a lot more than the feeble excuses and hypocritical counter-arguments offered so far. Everyone knows that politics can be a nasty business and we have seen over [… read more ]
News
Sisters Uncut: Portsmouth Tories Should ‘Stop and Listen’ to Opponents, Not Smear Them
Following yesterday’s breaking news on S&C of a Tory plan to ‘smear’ opponents to council cuts, local charity Aurora New Dawn and campaign group Sisters Uncut respond. Hampshire charity Aurora New Dawn revealed today that [… read more ]
News
Portsmouth Tory Smear Plans Exposed
A leaked email from Cllr Scott Harris to all Conservative councillors – including the Leader and the Lord Mayor – calls for the Conservatives to ‘play dirty’ against a local resident, a charity, a city [… read more ]
News
A Matter of Truth and Trust: Charity Responds to Portsmouth Council Leader
Shonagh Dillon, CEO of Aurora New Dawn, responds to allegations from Council Leader Donna Jones that the charity is implicated in an alleged ‘hate campaign’ against her. In a recent News article, the Leader of [… read more ]
Politics
What Politicians Say and What They Mean: Part I
Sources: Portsmouth News: Tory boss rejects claim of ‘financial incompetence’ Portsmouth City Council: Current children’s centre provision (9 centres and 16 satellite sites) Portsmouth City Council: Proposed new structure (6 hubs and 9 satellite sites) [… read more ]
News
An Open Letter to Councillors on Domestic Violence Cuts
Shonagh Dillon, Chief Executive of Hampshire-based charity Aurora New Dawn, responds to personal criticism of her by local councillors in a recent article in The News about proposed cuts to domestic violence services in Portsmouth. I [… read more ]
News
Volunteers: Services on the Cheap?
Shelagh Simmons highlights the hypocrisy and myopia of the Council leadership’s sudden endorsement of volunteering. Promoting the city’s latest volunteering initiative, Portsmouth Together, Portsmouth City Council leader Donna Jones recently told The News how supportive she [… read more ]
News
Councillors Hint at New Domestic Violence Services Following Campaigners’ Pressure
Sarah Cheverton reports on a Twitter exchange between Hampshire domestic violence charity Aurora New Dawn, the Council Leader and local councillors hinting at new service provision for victims of domestic abuse, following local and national [… read more ]