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Pompey Politics Podcast: Happy Birthday

21st April 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, in an effort to avoid talking about lockdowns and social distancing, Ian and Simon look back on the last twelve [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: This Wasn’t the Week We Planned

17th March 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, with so many things changing, a budget that barely anyone can remember, their guest pulling out, and with the country [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Winners and Grinners Special

21st May 2019

The third episode of Portsmouth’s favourite party-political podcast – hosted by Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury – sees our hosts welcome three guests: Dave Ashmore (Liberal Democrats), Cal Corkery (Labour), and Scott Payter-Harris (Conservative). [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: The Evening After The Morning After The Election The Day Before

16th May 2019

Simon Sansbury got to bed in ‘the wee small hours’ following the declaration of the final vote of the local elections on 2nd May 2019, and Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris was up at the crack of [… read more ]

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Green Party Voters Urged to Support NHA Candidate in Cosham

26th April 2019

Portsmouth Green Party are urging their voters to support the National Health Action Party candidate Dr Veronika Wagner in the local elections in Cosham on 2nd May. Sarah Cheverton reports. The Portsmouth Green Party announced [… read more ]

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Blue and Yellow Till We Die: Launch of New Pompey Politics Podcast

25th April 2019

A new podcast launched this week with the first episode focused on the upcoming council elections on 2nd May. There’s no shortage of politics podcasts out there, but this is a podcast with a difference [… read more ]

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‘I’m Brian and So’s My Wife’: The Gosport Voter ID Trial

14th May 2018

Local resident Ian Morris enjoyed the cut and thrust of the recent council elections, and watched with interest his birthplace of Gosport as it underwent a trial in which voters were required to produce forms of [… read more ]

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Gosport Voter ID: ‘A Solution in Search of a Problem’?

8th May 2018

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 ]

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Owen Jones Comes to Portsmouth to ‘Unseat The Tories’

27th March 2018

On Thursday 29th March, Owen Jones, author, columnist and Labour Party campaigner, is coming to Portsmouth for a mass-canvassing session open to all, followed by a Q and A session. Cal Corkery, Chair of Portsmouth [… read more ]

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Lib Dem Leader Demands Continuous Recounts of Portsmouth’s Charles Dickens Seat

26th May 2016

Our guest satirist Claire Denise Udy reports on a little-known local election story. Portsmouth Guildhall have postponed all events for another night as Gerald Vernon Jackson demands recount after recount. Residents of Portsmouth have spoken [… read more ]

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Portsmouth City of Culture: Could the Dream Come True?

3rd December 2025

It could be the biggest boost Portsmouth has ever had – but don’t speak too soon, writes veteran journalist Peter Gruner. Look what happened to nearby Southampton. However, let’s all hope for the best and [… read more ]

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Portsmouth North MP Speaks Out on Challenges Facing Men

24th November 2025

Portsmouth North MP Amanda Martin celebrated the ‘boys and men’ of her family during a passionate debate in the House of Commons about the struggles of today’s males. Veteran journalist Peter Gruner reports. Former local [… read more ]

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Portsmouth UCU Branch Challenges Justification for University ‘Reset’ and Redundancies

14th November 2025

The Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has passed a motion questioning the arguments made in this recent article published in the Telegraph. The article claims that last year’s ‘Academic Reset’ at [… read more ]

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UCU Branch Calls on the University of Portsmouth to Condemn Far-Right Attacks

13th November 2025

The Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has voted to call on the University of Portsmouth (UoP) to make a public statement about the recent incidents of hate and violence that have [… read more ]

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Families in Portsmouth to Join National SEND Awareness Event at Guildhall

31st October 2025

On Monday 3rd November 2025, families will gather outside Portsmouth City Council’s Civic Offices in Guildhall Square from 10:30 am to 1 pm as part of the national Every Pair Tells a Story movement.   [… read more ]

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