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RELATIONSHIPS: long-distance romances
Valentine’s Day is here – not so good if you’re in a long-distance relationship. Holidays are hard when you cannot be physically together...
Rositsa Chinova
Feb 14, 20242 min read
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FASHION: Five Harry Styles outfits (that live in my head rent-free)
February 1st might mark the end of the longest month of the year for some, but for others, it’s far more than that — Harry Styles’...
Alison Mace
Feb 6, 20241 min read
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FOOD & DRINK: Girly Cocktails for Galentines
February 13th is a time to celebrate with your girls - enjoy spending a night with the people who get you through all the heartbreaks and...
Ariana Koskela-Reyes
Feb 2, 20242 min read
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FIVE BEST HIDDEN DATES
If you aren’t a Portsmouth local, it can be hard to find the hidden gems tucked away, but as Valentine’s Day is approaching let me share...
Gemma Pal
Feb 2, 20242 min read
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Pompey Playlist: our favourite Christmas Songs
With less than a fortnight until Christmas, nearly 75% of the songs on the UK Top 40 chart are holiday-themed. Wham!'s "Last Christmas"...
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Dec 10, 20232 min read
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Christmas Pudding: Love it or hate it?
This year we are expected to consume 25 million Christmas puddings, often wrapped in plastic or cardboard, and then bin some 740,000...
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Dec 8, 20232 min read
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CHRISTMAS OPINION: What’s the best bit of your Xmas dinner?
What is the stand-out part of the annual Christmas dinner? Turkey? Stuffing? Sweetcorn?! And should there be a Yorkshire Pudding? UK...
Shrelina Maratha, Maddie Baillie, Alison Canham, Elizabeth Short
Dec 5, 20232 min read
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NHS waiting lists: Portsmouth students' experiences
The waiting list for NHS hospital treatment rose to a record of nearly 7.8 million in September, and the 18-week treatment target has not...
Jasmine Scholefield
Nov 22, 20231 min read
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Pompey: A Student City?
“The city isn’t good for everybody else” but “it’s no fault of the students.” Portsmouth has over 28,000 university students making up...
Darren Lupindu, Molly Roy & Britta Sjoberg
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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FAWCETT ROAD: New pocket park
The Fawcett Road site to be redeveloped into a new pocket park Portsmouth City Council has announced funding for a new "Pocket Park’" on...
Stephen Pinhorne
Nov 8, 20231 min read
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HARIBO: Like a kid in a sweetshop
Sweet “happiness”: Gunwharf Quays' latest store, flick through our gallery Today (7 November) the new Haribo store opened its doors in...
Alison Canham & Alison Mace
Nov 7, 20232 min read
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LONG READ: What it’s like to be an autistic university student?
The reality for autistic students in the UK and the problems of staying authentic The Purple Lantern Society for neurodivergent students...
Charlotte Gager
Nov 1, 20234 min read
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Bank you very much: my struggle to open an account
Back and forth: etching by Dutch printmaker MC Escher As a new student who’s just moved over from Sweden, I’ve been struggling to just...
Britta Sjoberg
Oct 24, 20232 min read
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On Wednesday, we wear pink
Not just for Barbie: UoP dance supporting the colour pink Purple may be the UoP colour but this Wednesday (18 Oct), students turned the...
Ariana Koskela-Reyes
Oct 23, 20231 min read
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Britta Sjoberg, Alison Canham, Laura Pearson & Malaika.Kigongo
Oct 17, 20230 min read
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Mystery of the massive hatch: Wendy's Commercial road
Mysteriously shiny and unused: the delivery hatch at the new Wendy's on Commercial Road After the opening of the brand-new shiny Wendy’s...
Vincent Renton
Oct 17, 20231 min read
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Cheap : Pompey 'one of the most affordable UK cities for university students'
Portsmouth has been ranked in the top five most affordable cities to live in the NatWest Student Living Index Laughing all the way to the...
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Sep 15, 20232 min read
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