Culture
Jack Caramac on Brexit, Trump and Morrissey
S&C’s visual satirist Jack Caramac returns with another flurry of photo funnies.
Satire
News
Gosport Voter ID: ‘A Solution in Search of a Problem’?
Rosy Bremer – part of our #ReclaimTheNews local journalism training team – takes a satirical look at the piloting of voter ID in Gosport last week, one of only five places in the country to [… read more ]
Events
A Year of Living Dangerously: Cultural Reflections on Trump and Populism
The Conflict and Culture research group at the University of Portsmouth’s Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries will be holding a topical and satirical multimedia event on 26th April 2018. Since Brexit and the election [… read more ]
Culture
Satire. Brexit. And Bananas? The Endless Village Comes to Aspex
The Endless Village is a satirical art exhibition coming to Aspex from Thursday 29th March and featuring archival material, oral history interviews and moving image work in the form of a satirical sitcom, accompanied by [… read more ]
Fiction
Pompey: No One Comes Near Our Greatness
In the interests of political balance, S&C has appointed a new columnist who tells it how it is and doesn’t care who he offends. Whatever you’re thinking he’s thinking but, unlike you, he has the [… read more ]
Fiction
Critical Hob-Nobality and Ethno-Dishcourses of Snack Consumption
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 ]
Fiction
A Leak from a Sick Institute
An anonymous whistleblower recently sent S&C a leaked copy of the annual report to the Board of Governors of the Southsea Institute of Creatindustry Knowledgehow (SICK), delivered by Vice-Chancellor Heister Hoare-O’Mammon. Ladies, gentlemen, bishops, retired [… read more ]
Politics
Portsmouth Gardeners’ Corner: The No-Magic-Money Tree
Portsmouth resident, aspiring gardener and S&C regular, Rosy Bremer, shares her tips on a recently discovered perennial, the No-Magic-Money Tree. July in the garden: it’s the back end of Wimbledon month, kids off-school time and [… read more ]
Fiction
Consiglio Cittadino: A Dantean Journey Through Portsmouth City Council
By Simon Sykes At one point some way along our path in life, I woke in Verge’s place, Amongst the dark wood, within the city, a wilderness, harsh and brute. Verge, having saved me [… read more ]
Politics
Election ’17 Results: Jack Caramac Special II
After his popular Election ’17 Specials – check out Part I, Part II and Part III – Jack Caramac returns with some post-election responses to the media, and to our political leaders, at home and [… read more ]