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Pompey Politics Podcast: Schrodinger’s Banker

29th September 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon welcome back to the show Jerry ‘Inquisitor’ Brown to talk them through his research into PCC’s investment in [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Disruptive Starts

22nd September 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon welcome entrepreneur Becky Lodge – founder of Startup Disruptors and Little Kanga to talk about starting your own business [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Can we be friends on Facebook?

15th September 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon invite community campaigner Kimberly Barrett to the podcast to talk about building a community online, keeping the peace [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: To Let or Not To Let – That Is The Question

8th September 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon welcome back Councillor Cal Corkery and invite landlord Rik Rutter to discuss the rental market and how the government’s [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Grading Gavin Williamson

25th August 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns from it’s summer break, with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury speaking to Cllrs Suzy Horton (Cabinet Member for Children, Families & Education on Portsmouth City Council) & Terry Norton to [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Is the NHS Up for Sale?

28th July 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast reaches its last episode of the season, with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury taking on last week’s (nine and a half hour) full council meeting, whether the NHS is up [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: All Roads Lead to Moans

21st July 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon tackle two vital subjects: The government imposed Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in Portsmouth, and the Prime Minister’s ‘Out of [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Mind Your Own Business

14th July 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian & Simon welcome two local business owners onto the show to ask them how they’ve found trading as the lockdown [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: ‘Dins & Bins’

7th July 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon discuss the 72nd birthday of the NHS, misreporting of a local lockdown, leaving the EU, and the [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: Let’s Grab a Beer

30th June 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, Ian and Simon talk about pubs reopening on 4th July and ask if Portsmouth residents will be heading back to [… read more ]

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Welfare not Warfare: Protest Against Benefits Cuts in Portsmouth

27th June 2025

Portsmouth and District Unite Community is calling a protest against the savage cuts to Personal Independence (PIP) Universal Credit and Employment Support Allowance (ESA), reports trades unionist and activist Alan Burgess. The protest will take [… 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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