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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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Why I’m Concerned About the Government’s Response to Covid-19

17th April 2020

Matt Hancock has ‘forbidden’ use of blanket Do Not Resuscitate orders for the elderly, following reports of such DNRs being sent to elderly residents and care homes across the UK for over two weeks. We [… read more ]

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Help Available for Portsmouth Small Businesses and SMEs

16th April 2020

We’re collating support, resources and grants available to small businesses in Portsmouth. If you know of a resource that we’ve missed, let us know  and we’ll add it to the list (contact details at the [… read more ]

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Pompey Politics Podcast: This Wasn’t the Week We Planned

17th March 2020

Pompey’s favourite party political podcast returns with hosts Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris and Simon Sansbury. In this week’s episode, with so many things changing, a budget that barely anyone can remember, their guest pulling out, and with the country [… read more ]

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Community Orchards: Planting Trees and Inspirational People

16th March 2020

Inspired by the many fabulous environmental initiatives taking place in Portsmouth, Pens of the Earth was set up to encourage writers to celebrate existing projects, and to imagine what might be. This week Helen Salsbury digs [… read more ]

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Are Council Regulations Stopping Fair Competition for Private Hire Drivers?

20th February 2020

Uber drivers will ask Portsmouth City Council today for the removal of ‘unnecessary and overly burdensome’ signage on private hire vehicles, a move opposed by local council officers. Sarah Cheverton reports. Three representatives of Uber [… 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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Is the Council Serious About Improving Air Quality?

30th January 2020

Portsmouth City Council (PCC) will decide today whether to introduce a new air pollution monitoring station ahead of the possible implementation of a Clean Air Zone (CAZ) in 2021, but a local campaigner is concerned [… 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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Portsmouth’s Clean Air Zone: The Bare Minimum or Simply Inadequate?

18th November 2019

Portsmouth City Council recently proposed a reduced Clean Air Zone to improve air quality in the city. Local air quality campaigner for Let Pompey Breathe, Tim Sheerman-Chase, explores the proposal and questions whether the plan [… 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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