Memoir
Harbour
By Maggie Sawkins. Gentian (with a g as in gate) is late. He was scraping dishes last night at Ken’s Kebabs. One day, he says, when he’s mastered this lingo, he’ll have a restaurant of [… read more ]
Suicide
News
Portsmouth News’ Readers Respond Angrily as Columnist Tells Men to ‘Quit Moaning’
Columnist Clive Smith provoked debate on social media about male mental health, depression and suicide yesterday following a column that complained depression has “become like an epidemic of the modern era”. Clive Smith’s column in [… read more ]
Social Issues
The Cutting Edge of Social Media
Sinderlie Prankard asks: has Facebook highlighted the problem of self-harm or exacerbated it? The death last year of actor Robin Williams once again brought mental health problems to public attention. Preliminary results of the forensic [… read more ]