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Pompey Politics Podcast: Stay Home. Control the Podcast. Save the Audience

12th May 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon listen to the Prime Minister’s address to the nation on May 10th 2020 and comment on his pronouncements. Did [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast…Meets Portsmouth Politics

5th May 2020

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 the founder of popular local politics Facebook group, Portsmouth Politics, Si Bunting. The three discuss [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Terry in April, Not June

28th April 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Cllr Terry Norton is on the show for the first time to talk about life in Drayton & Farlington, how the [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Happy Birthday

21st April 2020

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 ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: No Easter Eggs

14th April 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon invite Deputy Leader of Portsmouth City Council, Steve Pitt, to talk about the changes needed in Portsmouth [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Lockdown, Day Seven

31st March 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, the guys work their way through most of this week’s events. These include the government using mobile data to fight [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Independents Day

10th March 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, the guys welcome Portsmouth political stalwart Cllr John Ferrett onto the show to discuss life as an independent councillor in [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Dennis didn’t Menace

19th February 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing & Social Care Matthew Winnington joins them by telephone to talk about the issue of retaining GP provision in [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Live! means Live!

4th February 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. With the minor operator error of Simon forgetting to hit ‘record’ at the start, Portsmouth’s very own political podcast completed its first live show [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Rumours of the end of the world have been greatly exaggerated

20th January 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury discussing (without authority) President Trump’s latest attempt to throw the world away in nuclear war before moving on to discuss the first casualty of Labour’s [… 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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