Justin MacCormack examines the online harassment of women in prominent roles, recently brought back to the public eye following the announcement that the next Doctor Who will be played by a woman. Complaints to the [… read more ]
By Richard Salsbury. Shame you couldn’t make it. Yeah, I’m not usually into that sort of thing either, but don’t you ever wonder what happened to everyone? Teachers are a lot greyer, like you’d expect. [… read more ]
S&C Contributing Editor Christine Lawrence reflects on the General Election many people – including her – didn’t want, but nonetheless accept as a legacy of the struggle for democratic rights in this country. I hate [… read more ]
What challenges do digital media pose to journalists and activists seeking the truth? What is the truth anyway and does anyone still care about it? Self-proclaimed ‘Facebook firebrand’ Troll-Eye Spam tries – and rather fails [… read more ]
S&C regular and local writer, Matt Wingett, explores the growing resentment with austerity that drove the results of last weeks’ general election, and how the Prime Minister could have so badly misunderstood the electorate. It’s [… read more ]
Editor in Chief, Sarah Cheverton, revisits the last 6 weeks of election fever in a behind-the-scenes look at how S&C worked with local residents and writers to bring alternative perspectives to local mainstream news. When [… read more ]
Gareth Rees has been following politics for fifty years and has written about it for the Guardian, Contemporary Review and S&C. He chats to S&C editor and contributor to New Statesman and Private Eye, Tom [… read more ]
Leader of Southsea Community Choir and Natural Voice Practitioner, Janet Ayers, never expected a Facebook joke to go viral last December. In this S&C exclusive, Janet writes about how ‘The Trump Pepper’ is still making [… read more ]
Portsmouth University student Dyanni Swhyer-Brown laments the loss of an ingenious social media app that launched careers, raised important social issues and brought disparate people together. Dyanni Swhyer-Brown Death doesn’t have happen to a human [… read more ]
Claire Pearse reports from the frontline of insomnia where the hardest battle is against boredom and time passing far too slowly. You would never guess it but being awake in the early hours of the [… read more ]
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