Laszlo Dumitrescu returns, and he’s made some interesting and powerful friends. In my first month I have made many friends in the business and rotary circles of Portsmouth. On my desk there is photograph [… read more ]
Citadel of crows: dagger-beaked above the motorcycles ranked out front of Mick’s monster burger van. Hop. Skip. Peck up what’s left over; their bare-faced opportunism rising and landing between the wheels. This ridge is [… read more ]
Parent, blogger and S&C regular Maddie Wallace talks to her two sons about feminism. I think at nine and ten my boys are more than ready to begin to take on board the idea that girls and women, who may be anatomically [… read more ]
Lisa Churchyard draws on a painful personal experience to highlight the neglect and carelessness that characterise far too many of our homes for the elderly. Two years ago my grandfather, Kenneth Mather, found himself scared, confused, freezing [… read more ]
Presented by TS Evinrude, Gorgeous Cretin and Omnimoda Music. There’s a ticket tonight that is hotter than quark-gluon plasma. It’s the only place to be. It’s the lateral earache epitome. It’s the auditory equivalent of a [… read more ]
JS Adams explores virtual reality at the White Elephant in Southsea and finds himself imagining the potential of a whole new (virtual) world. I am at the White Elephant in Cromwell Road Southsea, home to [… read more ]
Paige Tabone was brutally attacked in a Portsmouth nightclub simply for being disabled. Here she makes a passionate plea for changes to the law, police procedure and public attitudes. Many scenarios go through your head [… read more ]
Imaginary words written by a sailor on board HMS M33 – Gallipoli 1915 I lift the lid and find his whole life harboured here; things that he kept safe: a photo of his wife Mary [… read more ]
Following the departure of the previous Police & Crime Commissioner for Hampshire & the Isle of Wight at the May elections, the newly elected Lucifer Pillowtalk speaks exclusively to S&C about his priorities for the [… read more ]
Looking up from the base of the tower I see a blue rectangle in the viewing deck one hundred metres above me. The swoop of the sails’ belly is white against the sky. Red lights [… read more ]
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