Writer and planetary modeller David Angus recalls recent global and personal events in a letter to his dead parents, from anti-vaxxers to flying a Spitfire. By now Jill Mole should be with you and Arthur [… read more ]
Dear Stephen, Thank you for finding the time to reply to me on this vitally important matter. You are right to state that ‘the competent court is the ICJ’ and that it is unlikely to [… read more ]
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 ]
For the second day this week, Portsmouth South constituents have demonstrated outside their MP Stephen Morgan’s office. George Hibberd reports. The protestors are demanding that Morgan, a member of Labour Friends of Israel and a recipient [… read more ]
Writers and S&C Cultural Editors Sue Harper and Paul Valentine present two poems both entitled ‘Gaza’. Sue Harper Yahweh knocks on your door there is blood in his hair his teeth are [… read more ]
Filmmaker and journalist Habibur Rahman explains how a disconnected telephone is moving around Portsmouth as a symbolic tool for connecting people and as a means of documenting powerful local stories. Based on the principle [… read more ]
Residents of Portsmouth South and members of the Portsmouth Resistance Collective have picketed the office of Stephen Morgan MP, with placards reading ‘Don’t Proscribe Palestine Action’, ‘Stop the RAF Spy Flights for Israel’, and ‘We [… read more ]
Portsmouth-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign activist Linda Spence was shocked to be arrested last week for opposing a genocide in which up to 186,000 people have been killed. Here’s what happened in her words. I’m not [… read more ]
Portsmouth author and socialist activist Pete Adams campaigned nearly every day in the 2017 and 2019 general elections for Stephen Morgan. He got to know Stephen and liked him, but he now suspects he was [… read more ]
By Pete Adams Silly Billy Was Billy silly? Billy felt silly. He believed he was a socialist and a committed anti-racist and was now being called an anti-Semite because the Labour Party said so – [… read more ]
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