Poetry
A Capital Stooge
By Amanda Garrie Oh dear, oh dear, treacherous Keir you favour the bosses over job losses. You’re not the right ilk, in your cap, gown and silk; your attempt at a joke has you covered [… read more ]
Jeremy Corbyn
Politics
Keep Starmer and Carry On? How the Left Might Engage with Sir Keir
Almost every decision Keir Starmer has made since becoming Labour leader has earned the ire of leftist pundits and politicians. But what if the left itself were to change its approach to him and his [… read more ]
Politics
Pompey Politics Podcast: Don’t Panic!
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, they discuss the upcoming US election, the European Court of Human Rights investigation into Labour and if the Government have [… read more ]
Politics
‘Risking Their Lives When They Get Back to Work’: Cllr Claire Udy on COVID-19 in Portsmouth (Part 2)
In the second part of her interview with S&C Founding Editor Tom Sykes, Cllr Claire Udy, Leader of the Progressive Portsmouth People Group on Portsmouth City Council, discusses workplace safety, police enforcement of the lockdown [… read more ]
Politics
Pompey Politics Podcast: Lockdown, Day Seven
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, the guys work their way through most of this week’s events. These include the government using mobile data to fight [… read more ]
Memoir
A Working Class Student is Something to Be?
Oliver Timberlake, writer, reveals his personal experience of being working-class at the University of Portsmouth. Since the 1980s, there’s been a dominant narrative about how class in Britain no longer really matters. For Margaret Thatcher, [… read more ]
Fiction
A Brexit Timeline
By an anonymous contributor. Jul 2016: Britain holds a referendum, the result of which is to tell the EU to sod off. Dec 2020: Britain leaves the EU without a deal. Downing Street accuses the [… read more ]
Politics
Pompey Politics Podcast: Rumours of the end of the world have been greatly exaggerated
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury discussing (without authority) President Trump’s latest attempt to throw the world away in nuclear war before moving on to discuss the first casualty of Labour’s [… read more ]
Politics
General Election? Ha! Ha! Ha!
Portsmouth University Visiting Lecturer and stand-up comic Matthew Alford takes a lighthearted glance at the 2019 General Election campaign, which he follows swiftly with a heavy-hearted gawp. I am the perfect person to write a [… read more ]
Fiction
Lying in the Middle of the Road Through the Centre Ground: Brexity Dinosaurs
Born in Portsmouth but brought up above what later became the Granita restaurant in Islington, Marcus Median was one of the architects of New Labour. Elected as MP for Milton Park South-North-West in 1997, he [… read more ]