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 ]
Simon Sansbury got to bed in ‘the wee small hours’ following the declaration of the final vote of the local elections on 2nd May 2019, and Ian ‘Tiny’ Morris was up at the crack of [… read more ]
Portsmouth Green Party are urging their voters to support the National Health Action Party candidate Dr Veronika Wagner in the local elections in Cosham on 2nd May. Sarah Cheverton reports. The Portsmouth Green Party announced [… read more ]
A new podcast launched this week with the first episode focused on the upcoming council elections on 2nd May. There’s no shortage of politics podcasts out there, but this is a podcast with a difference [… read more ]
S&C regular contributor Dianna Djokey interviews Celia Meiras, who plays Hanna in Hannah and Hanna in Dreamland, a play by John Retallack being staged at the New Theatre Royal on 16th October. The play has [… read more ]
S&C’s visual satirist Jack Caramac returns with another flurry of photo funnies.
Portsmouth resident and community activist, Alan Burgess, responds to UKIP’s Cllr Galloway and his motion for ‘the local police force to be more vigilant and to help the Council to remove the ever increasing beggars [… read more ]
Horror author and satirist Justin MacCormack examines UKIP’s latest local gaffe through the lens of dark and dystopian science fiction. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower inferno, I expected there to be a respectful [… read more ]
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 ]
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 ]
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