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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 ]
Vladimir Putin
Politics
What Mainstream Media Will Never Tell Us About Western Foreign Policy
March 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the NATO assault on Libya and the start of the Syrian Civil War, as well as the 18th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. To acknowledge [… read more ]
Politics
Russia, the World Cup and the Game of Equivalences
As the World Cup in Russia ends, a Portsmouth writer who prefers to remain anonymous responds to issues raised by David Edwards’ article last week and argues that the West’s imperial crimes should not dissuade [… read more ]
News
The Russia World Cup: A Smokescreen for Atrocities?
While excitement grows about England’s progress in the World Cup, Russia is dropping bombs on homes, markets and hospitals in southwest Syria, reports Portsmouth-based writer and activist Nicholas Sebley. The strategy is called ‘depopulation’: President [… read more ]
Politics
Contrasting Contests: The Russia World Cup and the London Olympics in the Media
David Edwards of Media Lens has detected some glaring double standards in British mainstream media reporting on the current World Cup in Russia. Senior Guardian sports writer Barney Ronay indicated the basic tone of early [… read more ]
Fiction
Troll-Eye Spam: Facebook Firebrand
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 ]
Politics
Election ’17: War is a Politician’s Vanity Project
Graham Horne of the anti-war campaign group Veterans for Peace (VfP) talks to S&C editor Tom Sykes about what the coming election could mean for Britain’s arms industry, foreign policy and international relations. Tom Sykes: [… read more ]
Politics
From Bosnia to Syria: ‘Fake News’, Imperialist Agendas
Portsmouth University media lecturer Dr Stephen Harper critiques Western reporting on the Syria conflict, which is worryingly reminiscent of the biased coverage of the Bosnian war in the 1990s. At the end of last year, [… read more ]
Politics
War is Failure: An Interview with a Veteran for Peace Part II
In the second part of our exclusive interview, Veterans for Peace‘s Southeast of England Coordinator Graham Horne talks to Tom Sykes about combat stress, the relationship between the military and the education system and how [… read more ]
Fiction
Portal Double Zero Part II
By Jon Crout Otto was allocated a bunk in a dormitory, and he only realised how much his aching body needed to rest once he was lying down. As he stretched out, he thought deeply [… read more ]