Covid-19 Community Reporter, Dianna Djokey, interviews Abel, a local social care worker and migrant, about his experiences as a key worker during the pandemic. Covid-19 has a higher risk of affecting migrants and people of [… read more ]
This Friday (September 11th) a new film is released in UK cinemas which was made in Portsmouth and directed by a local film-maker. Sue Harper, Emeritus Professor of Film History at the University of Portsmouth, [… read more ]
S&C proudly presents the transcript of last week’s special guest lecture by Professor Ethel Tulala-Smith to the Faculty of Post-transcultural Trans-post-culturalism at the Southsea Institute of Creatindustry Knowledgehow (SICK). There is a detail. A marginal [… read more ]
Francis Davis starts his walking travelogue of Portsmouth in a unique homage to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier with a thought-provoking wander through class, culture and the perils of the coastline. A fifth year once [… read more ]
There’s a popular perception of Portsmouth as a monocultural, jingoistic and reactionary city. Taking a very different angle, University of Portsmouth lecturer and foreign affairs commentator Tom Sykes discusses Portsmouth’s role as a global city [… read more ]
On May 7, various racist groups will be attending a rally in Portsmouth Guildhall against refugees. Portsmouth Antifascists and other groups will be out to stop them. Here they tell Star & Crescent why. Against [… 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 ]
A recent visit to St Mary’s Hospital opened Gareth Rees’s mind about race, professionalism and the importance of the National Health Service. I needed a crutch. No, I don’t mean religion, or someone to do [… read more ]
S&C’s culture correspondent sees signs of God in Southsea and gets pondering…. I am trying to find that in-between space, somewhere between Richard Dawkins and Isis; between Page 3 and the niqab. But all [… read more ]
Locally-based author and journalist Tom Sykes first became interested in African culture, literature and politics while growing up on Hayling Island and in Portsmouth. Twenty years on, he is about to realise a dream by [… read more ]
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