Portsmouth University Visiting Lecturer and stand-up comic Matthew Alford takes a lighthearted glance at the 2019 General Election campaign, which he follows swiftly with a heavy-hearted gawp. I am the perfect person to write a [… read more ]
Mark Field has been suspended as a Foreign Office minister after a video was published last week showing the MP physically removing a climate change protester from a dinner function. S&C’s Editor in Chief, Sarah [… read more ]
S&C regular, local writer and PhD researcher Maddie Wallace speaks to her sons – aged 11 and 12 years – about Brexit to discover what young people know – and don’t know – about the [… read more ]
TJ Coles of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research and co-author of Union Jackboot examines how and why the majority of politicians on both sides of the left-right political spectrum can so consistently vote for [… read more ]
Local resident and S&C contributor Ian Morris gives a tongue in cheek response to last week’s draft Brexit deal, and asks what it means for Britain, and our political discourse. Last Thursday, I listened to [… read more ]
The Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced a festival of British culture, sport and innovation to take place in 2022, inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851. S&C can now exclusively reveal an anonymously leaked [… read more ]
The National Health Singers released a protest song about cuts to the NHS this week as the Service celebrates its birthday today, 5th July 2018. Dr Katy McDowall, an NHS Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar who [… read more ]
S&C’s visual satirist Jack Caramac returns with another flurry of photo funnies.
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 ]
As vCJD – the human form of Mad Cow Disease (BSE) – hits the headlines again, a forthcoming documentary featuring Portsmouth journalist and campaigner Christine Lord investigates how BSE-infected material entered the human food chain [… read more ]
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