This week – from 4th to 10th February – is Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week and Portsmouth student and S&C reporter Maia Cook interviewed Gemma Green from PARCS (Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Services) [… read more ]
We all know about the right-wing media’s hostility to Corbyn, but plenty of left-liberal commentators such as Jonathan Freedland are making unjust and inaccurate allegations against him too. David Cromwell of Media Lens reports. In [… read more ]
Portsmouth-based writer and activist Paige Tabone is worried about the depictions of disabled people in some of our best-loved movies. Film and TV play an important role in shaping the thoughts, feelings and attitudes that [… read more ]
The final part of Tom Sykes’ exclusive interview with Graham Horne, South East Coordinator for Veterans for Peace, touches upon state-corporate propaganda, US-UK war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and why Jeremy Corbyn isn’t anti-war enough. [… read more ]
Our contributing editor Maddie Wallace investigates the local consequences of the biggest crisis in the Labour Party since the formation of the SDP in 1981. As even people living in steel bubbles on Mars will [… read more ]
As local junior doctors prepare to join their colleagues across the country for next week’s strike action, Dr V. Wagner is raising awareness of the government’s ongoing attack on our health service – collating the [… read more ]
Star & Crescent has been awarded Nesta funding and a place on a new action research project for hyperlocal news sites in the UK. ‘Hyperlocals’ are defined as news media (online or in print) that [… read more ]
Portsmouth University senior lecturer Sophia Wood dissects the relationship between social class and political affiliation – nationally and locally. Class is playing an extraordinary role in the seemingly endless run-up to the 2015 general election [… read more ]
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