Angus Geddes of the Portsmouth & South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign calls for an end to Portsmouth’s ties with a corporation that is complicit in crimes against humanity. On 27th March 2015, Britain called on Israel to [… read more ]
Dianna Djokey is a young migrant woman living and working in Portsmouth. So much of the current election campaign is based on discussions about people like Dianna, but her story and her experiences as a [… read more ]
We asked local writers and residents to give their thoughts on voting in the General Election on 7th May. Matt Wingett was born in Portsmouth and is a local writer, currently working on a book [… read more ]
Abigail Lofthouse investigates the rise of smaller parties in recent elections, ahead of GE 2015. With the build-up to the general election, it seems politics is stretching out from the centre. People are realising there [… read more ]
Hannah McKellar-Ricketts considers the rise of UKIP and questions the scapegoating of immigrants for wider social problems in our city. Excuse me, but if immigration is such a big problem in Portsmouth, then why am I enjoying [… read more ]
Rosy Bremer explores the impact of slashing Council funding on the freedom of local residents to take a slash. Since 2010 we’ve all learnt a few more synonyms for cuts of all sorts. Efficiency savings [… read more ]
Southsea resident, Tony Brown, joined his neighbours to protest the opening of a nightclub in a residential area. Together, this unlikely community group took on the nightclub industry to fight for their neighbourhood, and won. [… read more ]
From time to time, Sarah Cheverton is called upon by local authorities to do communications work, often when there’s a particularly hot potato that officers are flipping nervously amongst each other. Occasionally, the nature of these complaints [… read more ]
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