Ian Morris returns with his weekly column and this week, he responds to Greg Clarke’s recent resignation and explores the issue of inclusive language. I love words, and possibly the more obscure the word, the [… read more ]
Beth Clarkson, Senior Lecturer in Sports Management, University of Portsmouth, joins academic researchers Alex Culvin, Keith Parry, and Stacey Pope to share their recently published research on how the pandemic is affecting men’s and women’s [… read more ]
Ian Morris continues his new weekly column, and after reading Ian Fleming’s Bond novel Moonraker, considers the changing nature of language over time. Does erasing evidence of past prejudice run the risk we forget it ever [… read more ]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is 70 this year. The anniversary went off with a bang, as the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, E. Tendayi Achiume, highlighted what she called the ‘structural racism’ [… read more ]
Lucy Schorn, local writer, activist and resident, explores male privilege, power and misogyny in her account of a train journey back to Portsmouth from Brighton Pride in August 2018. I just got home from a [… read more ]
On 10th July 2018, Shamira A. Meghani came to Portsmouth to contribute to a panel discussion for Hope not Hate Portsmouth on the importance of connection over hate and division. S&C is delighted to share [… read more ]
Star and Crescent are proud to be working with Portsmouth fundraising campaign M.E. Foggy Dog and its founder Sally Callow on a week of articles devoted to raising awareness of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.). In part [… read more ]
Portsmouth Liberal Democrat councillor Suzy Horton never expected to spend several years owning a folder with ‘lap-dancing club’ written on it. Nor could she have predicted the twists and turns of the planning application process for [… read more ]
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 ]
On March 5th, S&C‘s What is Going On? event brought together a broad range of local people to discuss the state of media in our city. One of our panellists, the media scholar Dr Sophia [… read more ]
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