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 ]
Jeremy Corbyn
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 ]
Editorials
GE2019: Lower the Voting Age to 17 Years
As Johnson and Corbyn clash over Brexit, students who tuned in to the ITV leaders’ debate are left wondering who to trust and believe, but they still can’t vote, writes Zoë Ingram, a student at [… read more ]
Editorials
Corbynism or Communism? That is the Question
As election time approaches, Stephen Harper of the Socialist Party of Great Britain sees no meaningful differences between the candidates however progressive they purport to be. The General Election draws near, the party propaganda machines [… read more ]
Politics
How Mainstream Media ‘Manage’ Right-wing and Centrist Racism
A series of scandals expose the institutional racism of both the Westminster bubble and the London-based mass media. Labour’s alleged anti-Jewish racism is undisputed and condemned without equivocation. But right-wing racism is questioned and debated. [… read more ]
News
Who are ‘The Grahams?’ Talking to My Sons About Brexit
S&C regular, local writer and PhD researcher Maddie Wallace speaks to her sons – aged 11 and 12 years – about Brexit to discover what young people know – and don’t know – about the [… read more ]
Politics
M.A.E.D. in Britain? A Portsmouth Resident Reacts to the Brexit Deal
Local resident and S&C contributor Ian Morris gives a tongue in cheek response to last week’s draft Brexit deal, and asks what it means for Britain, and our political discourse. Last Thursday, I listened to [… read more ]
Politics
Is Jeremy Corbyn an Anti-Semite?
In a new book, Union Jackboot, Portsmouth University visiting lecturer Matt Alford interviews the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research’s TJ Coles, an oppositional political commentator and author of Britain’s Secret Wars, a critique of modern [… read more ]