Writing a 21st century family Christmas musical isn’t easy. Performed at the TPS Studio, Petersfield, Operation Santa weaves together the worlds of business, political injustice, fake news and Yuletide magic into a dramatic, touching and [… read more ]
Dr Stephen Harper, media studies lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB), argues that Covid-related misinformation is a product of our paranoid and resentful age of [… read more ]
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Days 68-71, and Maddie is giving [… read more ]
Deborah Shaw Oh look! That’s me in the picture! Always wanted to have my photo in the paper That’s me Just sitting Peacefully Passively Waiting for death Oh look! That’s me in the picture [… read more ]
Chris Matheson, Shadow Minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and MP for City of Chester explains why he supports the campaign to #SaveIndependentNews, run by the Independent Community News Network (of which S&C is [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 43 and Ian reflects on whether a change in weather might also change the [… read more ]
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 ]
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 ]
Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon are joined by local activist Ivy Burrows, video search engine CTO & programmer for PeteyVid, Craig Stadler, [… read more ]
Local station That’s Solent TV has earned up to £300,000 of funding from BBC licence fee payers, but now wants to be based outside of the Solent area. A source close to That’s TV employees [… read more ]
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