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Pompey Politics Podcast: Disruptive Starts

22nd September 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon welcome entrepreneur Becky Lodge – founder of Startup Disruptors and Little Kanga to talk about starting your own business [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Can we be friends on Facebook?

15th September 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon invite community campaigner Kimberly Barrett to the podcast to talk about building a community online, keeping the peace [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: To Let or Not To Let – That Is The Question

8th September 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon welcome back Councillor Cal Corkery and invite landlord Rik Rutter to discuss the rental market and how the government’s [… read more ]

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Something for the Weekend: Sir Arthur Strikes Again

4th September 2020

In this week’s column, Ian Morris begins to doubt the wisdom of appointing Sir Arthur Kitten Doyle to a senior role in the Morris household’s working-from-home office. Who do you complain to if the Director [… read more ]

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Something for the Weekend: What to Wear in a Pandemic?

28th August 2020

In this week’s column, Ian Morris explores a domestic side effect of working from home in the pandemic… The days of no trousers… I seem to own an inordinate amount of trousers. I realised this [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Grading Gavin Williamson

25th August 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns from it’s summer break, with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury speaking to Cllrs Suzy Horton (Cabinet Member for Children, Families & Education on Portsmouth City Council) & Terry Norton to [… read more ]

Memoir

Something for the Weekend: Does It Pay to Complain?

21st August 2020

In this week’s column, Ian Morris explains the art of complaining well, and shares what happened after his recent experience of the ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme caused him to complain to a local [… read more ]

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Something for the Weekend: Making the Grade?

14th August 2020

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 ]

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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 ]

Memoir

Something for the Weekend: Eat Out to Help Out?

7th August 2020

Ian Morris and his family head out to try the government’s new Eat Out to Help Out (EOHO) scheme to support the economy, but it doesn’t go quite to plan. I am not pigging out, [… read more ]

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Portsmouth UCU Branch Condemns Iran War and Calls for University Ethics Review

27th May 2026

The Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has passed a motion condemning the US and Israel’s illegal wars against Iran and Lebanon, and calling for an ethical review of the University of [… read more ]

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Planetbuilding Blues: Science Fiction Special

11th May 2026

Writer and planetary modeller David Angus reminisces about science fiction (SF) conventions over the years and his friendship with SF icon Brian Aldiss. During Easter I was in Birmingham Exhibition Centre at a science fiction convention. [… read more ]

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The People’s Emergency Briefing: How to Combat Climate Change in Portsmouth

8th May 2026

Climate change is undeniably one of the biggest, if not the biggest, existential threat facing humanity. It is, however, quite difficult to grasp, and understand the impacts it currently has, and will have, not only [… read more ]

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Planetbuilding Blues: Space and Time Projects

9th April 2026

  Writer and planetary modeller David Angus details his latest projects, including Time Travel (and Dinosaurs) in Gosport. I’ve worked a lot on Jupiter’s moons, as you do. Callisto has already been mentioned in earlier [… read more ]

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Pompey Climate Choir Protests Outside Barclays Bank

27th March 2026

Portsmouth Climate Choir performed their song ‘We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank’ outside Barclays in Portsmouth in collaboration with PSC and Trans Pride Portsmouth. Viola Langley reports. Members of Portsmouth Climate Choir sang a rousing rendition [… read more ]

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