Portsmouth activist Rosy Bremer objects to the government’s increasing disdain for human rights. At long last I’ve got it; I have the perfect solution to the anger-causing problem that we all have human rights. So annoying isn’t [… read more ]
Tessa Ditner examines Portsmouth’s credentials as the historic corsetry capital of the world. Corsets. A frivolous topic isn’t it? It’s like writing about the politics of Dairy Milks. Yet corsetry from the point of view [… read more ]
Sam Ward takes a satirical swipe at new proposals to sponsor our defining landmark. The news broke the way it does these days. Cut-up and quoted, trickling out from the source, repurposed and ridiculed, a [… read more ]
International emergency response team, Serve On, are starting a Community Resilience Team for Portsmouth to train local residents to support local emergency services in crisis and emergency situations. Serve On – which also provides international [… read more ]
A year ago Yordana Shopova relocated from Bulgaria to Portsmouth… and she’s been loving every minute of it since. The first thing that struck me about Portsmouth was its warm weather. Coming from Bulgaria, my [… read more ]
In this poignant thinkpiece Shelagh Simmons looks at the impact of austerity on older people in our community and celebrates past generations of local activists. In the last edition of Star & Crescent, Phoebe Corbett-Stenson [… read more ]
Five months after the general election, many – including Rosy Bremer – are still reeling from the result. Ever since the election, it’s as if the country is going through the aftermath of a bad teenage [… read more ]
Daniel Malice recalls how his eyes were opened to the world after becoming a student at the University of Portsmouth. Growing up next to the sea in Norfolk, I assumed all coastal towns around England [… read more ]
By Jon Crout. It is 1992. It is Fudger’s birthday, and we are sat in his shed, hiding from his mum. She’s got the hump because he re-enacted Anderton’s goal at Highbury in her lounge [… read more ]
Chad Wilkinson explores Ingress, a global augmented reality online role playing game with a keen following in Portsmouth. A mass of hooded figures form a convoy outside Portsmouth’s Guildhall. Heads and shoulders bowled forwards, shielding [… read more ]
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