Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, they look at methods of voting this side of the Atlantic and ask if we really need to vote in [… read more ]
Rosy Bremer – part of our #ReclaimTheNews local journalism training team – takes a satirical look at the piloting of voter ID in Gosport last week, one of only five places in the country to [… read more ]
Mark Wright speaks to Labour candidate for Portsmouth South Stephen Morgan about the urgent need to fight the Tory cuts in Portsmouth, his enthusiasm for Labour’s radical manifesto and the necessity for all of us [… read more ]
Ian McCulloch, Green Party candidate for Portsmouth South, talks to Mark Wright about electoral reform, the unpleasantness of Laura Kuenssberg and his party’s proposed second referendum on leaving the EU. Mark Wright: With the General [… read more ]
In the wake of recent protests both local and global, journalist, political commentator and S&C editor Tom Sykes questions how representative our elected representatives really are – in Portsmouth and beyond. Criticisms of democracy have [… read more ]
In this poignant thinkpiece Shelagh Simmons looks at the impact of austerity on older people in our community and celebrates past generations of local activists. In the last edition of Star & Crescent, Phoebe Corbett-Stenson [… read more ]
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