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Portsmouth Campaigns: Monthly Round-up (6th Oct – 6th Nov 2021)

8th October 2021

We’re launching a new, monthly roundup of local events and protests for Pompey campaigners and activists. If you have an event, protest or campaign meeting you want to share, let us know on Facebook or [… read more ]

Memoir

‘Britain is Shooting Itself in the Foot’: Brexit, the NHS and Covid-19

26th November 2020

In the last part of a three part interview, Dianna Djokey interviews German migrant and doctor Lisa,  about Brexit, how councils have fared in the pandemic, and the experience of being a migrant worker in [… read more ]

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Public Health, British Citizenship and Covid-19

24th November 2020

In the second of a three part interview Dianna Djokey interviews German migrant and doctor Lisa about the pandemic, becoming a British citizen, and working in the NHS. Lisa’s name was changed at her request. [… read more ]

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Home-Schooling, Shielding and Looking for Work During Covid-19

28th October 2020

Dianna Djokey interviews Jolene, a Black NHS worker, about her experiences of shielding, lockdown and the pandemic, and the challenges facing people of colour in the UK. Jolene’s name has been changed at her request. [… read more ]

Culture

We Need Community: Covid-19 and Isolation

27th October 2020

Dianna Djokey interviews Majid Dhana about his experience as a migrant and a person of colour dealing with isolation during Covid-19, and the creative opportunities he’s created to speak up for other people through his [… read more ]

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Supply Teaching in Portsmouth During Covid-19

22nd October 2020

In the second of a two-part series, Dianna Djokey interviews local resident Adam about his experience of being a migrant, and supply teaching, during the pandemic. Adam’s real name was changed at his request. Dianna [… read more ]

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‘Uneasy’ but ‘Hopeful’: Living with Limited Leave to Remain in the UK

20th October 2020

In the first of a two part series, Dianna Djokey interviews Portsmouth-based supply teacher Adam (not his real name) about his experience of being a migrant during the pandemic. Adam’s name was changed at his [… read more ]

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Why I Chose to Live in Portsmouth and Become a British Citizen

19th October 2020

In the first of a three part interview, Dianna Djokey interviews German migrant and doctor Lisa,  about the pandemic, becoming a British citizen, and the impact of Brexit on migrants in the UK. Lisa’s name [… read more ]

Social Issues

‘I Have a Family to Provide For’: An Interview With a Migrant Care Worker

29th September 2020

Covid-19 Community Reporter, Dianna Djokey, interviews Abel, a local social care worker and migrant, about his experiences as a key worker during the pandemic. Covid-19 has a higher risk of affecting migrants and people of [… read more ]

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Migrants, Mental Health and Covid-19

23rd September 2020

Dianna Djokey reflects on the impact Covid-19 has had on the migrant community as she interviews migrant, mother and wife Ade Qsawe Anthony about how Covid-19 has affected her own, and her family’s, mental health. [… read more ]

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The People’s Emergency Briefing: How to Combat Climate Change in Portsmouth

8th May 2026

Climate change is undeniably one of the biggest, if not the biggest, existential threat facing humanity. It is, however, quite difficult to grasp, and understand the impacts it currently has, and will have, not only [… read more ]

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Planetbuilding Blues: Space and Time Projects

9th April 2026

  Writer and planetary modeller David Angus details his latest projects, including Time Travel (and Dinosaurs) in Gosport. I’ve worked a lot on Jupiter’s moons, as you do. Callisto has already been mentioned in earlier [… read more ]

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Pompey Climate Choir Protests Outside Barclays Bank

27th March 2026

Portsmouth Climate Choir performed their song ‘We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank’ outside Barclays in Portsmouth in collaboration with PSC and Trans Pride Portsmouth. Viola Langley reports. Members of Portsmouth Climate Choir sang a rousing rendition [… read more ]

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Portsmouth Event Unites Community on the Climate Emergency

27th March 2026

Inflation. High food and energy bills. Food banks. War. Genocide. We live in dark times, but a glimmer of hope can be found through spirit and community. On a chilly but sublime Thursday evening in [… read more ]

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‘The DWP Saved £180 Billion and They Can’t Pay Us £10 Billion’: Portsmouth WASPI Women Protest Pension Injustice

17th March 2026

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) is a campaign group advocating for compensation from the Department for Work and Pensions for its failure to properly inform women of increases to their state pension age. [… read more ]

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