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PONToon Virtual Event: Exploring Women’s Empowerment and Economic Equality

25th November 2020

Paris Ali-Pilling reports on the upcoming PONToon project symposium, which will see Star and Crescent’s Editor-in-Chief, Sarah Cheverton, talk about S&C‘s Covid-19 Reporting Project. On Tuesday 1st December, the University of Portsmouth will be hosting [… read more ]

Politics

Covid-19 and the Media: Myths and Mystifications

14th April 2020

S&C regular and Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) member Stephen Harper reflects on some of the hypocrisy, sensationalism and inaccuracy of the UK media’s coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps I’m not the best [… read more ]

Social Issues

‘We All Have a Responsibility to Prevent Sexual Violence’: Combatting Rape Culture in Portsmouth with PARCS

7th February 2019

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 ]

Politics

Election ’17: The Liberal Smearing of Jeremy Corbyn

12th May 2017

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 ]

Social Issues

Disneyfied Disability: Are Kids’ Films Causing Bigotry?

29th March 2017

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 ]

Politics

War is Failure: An Interview with a Veteran for Peace Part III

28th November 2016

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 ]

Politics

The Labour Party Split: The View From Portsmouth

8th September 2016

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 ]

News

Are We Letting The NHS Fail to Justify Privatising It?

25th April 2016

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 ]

Culture

Star & Crescent awarded Nesta funding as part of hyperlocals research project

23rd September 2015

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 ]

Culture

Class and the Career Politician

20th April 2015

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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What’s Missing from Local News in Portsmouth? And How do we Fix it?

11th June 2025

S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton shares insights from her PhD research on the local news crisis in her second article for Indie News Week (9th-16th June 2025). Building on her first article about the local [… read more ]

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What’s Happened to Local News in the UK and What Does it Mean for Portsmouth?

8th June 2025

This week, to mark Indie News Week 2025, S&C Editor Dr Sarah Cheverton is drawing from her recent PhD research on the local news crisis to talk about the dramatic changes to local news over [… read more ]

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Local News Crisis, Portsmouth: Sign the Petition to Help Regenerate Independent News

8th June 2025

This week – 9th-16th June – is Indie News Week, showcasing the importance of funding community-based journalism across the UK. The campaign’s organisers, the Public Interest News Foundation, has launched a petition calling on the government to support independent local news publishers and even up the playing field between independent local publishers and the large news corporations that own most of the UK’s local news titles.  [… read more ]

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Record Breaking £11 Billion is Still Not Enough to End the Special Educational Needs Crisis

17th May 2025

Parents and teachers left ‘overwhelmed’ by the failing SEN system in England’s schools, reports University of Portsmouth journalism student Ivana Domozetska. ‘I will do everything and anything for my daughter to get the support she [… read more ]

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Portsmouth City Council Plans £7.5 Million Boost in SEND for New Special School

17th May 2025

Portsmouth City Council (PCC) is planning to invest £7.5 million in the Omega Arts Centre in Southsea to convert it into a special needs school. University of Portsmouth journalism student Ivana Domozetska reports. This will cover [… read more ]

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