Fiction
A Brexit Timeline
By an anonymous contributor. Jul 2016: Britain holds a referendum, the result of which is to tell the EU to sod off. Dec 2020: Britain leaves the EU without a deal. Downing Street accuses the [… read more ]
United States
Editorials
Young People’s Voices: Protesting Trump Over D-Day Was Wrong
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – student at Havant and South Downs College, Katelyn Barnard shares [… read more ]
Editorials
Young People’s Voices: Refugee Rights in the UK Media
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – student at Havant and South Downs College, Zoe Ingram, explores [… read more ]
History
Portsmouth D-Day Commemorations: What the Bloody Hell is Going On?
Donald Trump’s visit to Portsmouth tomorrow is shrouded in secrecy and corrupted by controversy. Local author and publisher Matt Wingett thinks the people of Portsmouth deserve some explanations. There’s a long tradition in Portsmouth of [… read more ]
Politics
Weaponised Liberalism: Russia, the West and the Great Game of Moral Equivalence
The West’s claim to moral superiority and its assumption of the role of ‘world’s policeman’ are largely derived from a classical approach to liberalism. In short, the argument is that our societies are more liberal [… read more ]
Memoir
A Pompey Muso: Lost in America Part I
Portsmouth writer and S&C regular JS Adams recalls a frightening episode in his music career when he found himself stranded in Austin, Texas amid some dangerous characters, with only a hat and glasses to his name. [… read more ]
Memoir
Home Thoughts of Portsmouth From Abroad
Having left Portsmouth for the United States and then come back to Pompey in later life, Gareth Rees ponders the meaning of travel and the definition of home. It’s hardly uplifting hearing folk running down [… read more ]