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Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Days 61-63, Teenage Angst

18th May 2020

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 61-63 and Maddie can see [… read more ]

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89 Not Out: Day 63, Portchester Castle and Social Distancing

18th May 2020

S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 63 and Ian vents his frustration and concern after a visit to a – [… read more ]

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Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 60, A Load of Crap (Literally)

15th May 2020

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 Day 60 and Maddie turns to [… read more ]

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89 Day Out: Day 59, A Walk With My Guide Dog Millsey

14th May 2020

S&C contributor and Pompey Politics Podcast host Ian Morris shares his experience of the lockdown, as someone with diabetes. It’s Day 59 and it’s time for Ian’s guide dog, Millsey to take centre stage. Wednesday 14th May, [… read more ]

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Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 58, Fake it Till You Make it

13th May 2020

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 Day 58, and the family are [… read more ]

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Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 52, Is UK Ready to Ease Lockdown?

7th May 2020

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 Day 52, Maddie has woken up [… read more ]

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Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Day 51, Accidents Happen

6th May 2020

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 Day 51, and the one thing [… read more ]

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Lockdown in Ireland: A ‘Much Quicker’ Response than the UK

5th May 2020

S&C contributor Maggie Sawkins put us in touch with her daughter, Portsmouth born Cat Sawkins, who now lives in Southern Ireland. Sarah Cheverton interviews Cat about how the Irish government have handled lockdown, how they [… read more ]

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Lockdown With My Family in Southsea: Days 46-49, What Day is it Again?

4th May 2020

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 Day 49, but who can even [… read more ]

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The Cat Catches a Pheasant

1st May 2020

By Christine Lawrence Standing on his hind legs, sure he’d heard a sound from the other end of the garden, he stretched his neck, sniffed the air and listened. His eyes were not his best [… read more ]

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Green Open Homes Week: How Portsmouth Residents are Taking on the Energy Crisis

26th June 2026

Energy prices are a growing concern – but for some, getting ahead of the crisis has paid off. Local residents have been opening their doors to Nicholas Sebley of Portsmouth Climate Action to reveal how they [… read more ]

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Portsmouth UCU Branch Condemns Iran War and Calls for University Ethics Review

27th May 2026

The Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has passed a motion condemning the US and Israel’s illegal wars against Iran and Lebanon, and calling for an ethical review of the University of [… read more ]

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Planetbuilding Blues: Science Fiction Special

11th May 2026

Writer and planetary modeller David Angus reminisces about science fiction (SF) conventions over the years and his friendship with SF icon Brian Aldiss. During Easter I was in Birmingham Exhibition Centre at a science fiction convention. [… 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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