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 ]
Rosy Bremer explores the impact of slashing Council funding on the freedom of local residents to take a slash. Since 2010 we’ve all learnt a few more synonyms for cuts of all sorts. Efficiency savings [… read more ]
Local writer Gareth Rees gives a personal account of his meeting with Roddy, a recovering alcoholic he met while working in Portsmouth’s homeless shelter in the Eighties. I worked nights, seven in the evening to [… read more ]
Daniel Malice reviews Snowpiercer a little-seen, must-see sci-fi classic of world cinema. John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, and Jamie Bell are among the last people left alive on Earth, which has become a frozen wasteland [… read more ]
At two schools in Portsmouth, NUT members have taken the initiative to combat their pupils’ poverty, reports The Teacher. But they are having to fork out their own money to meet the costs. The Primary [… read more ]
Only 3% of the UK’s money actually exists, highlights Chris Kennett of Positive Money Portsmouth, which was established in the midst of the recession to raise awareness of the national Positive Money campaign. Positive Money [… read more ]
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