Confidence and Supply
Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign team have been holding talks with leaders of the DUP, whose confidence and supply arrangement is holding the government together. Having survived a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party in December,…
Jane The Virgin
Netflix (5 seasons)Reviewed by Alan Bolwell The television serial format, telenovela, is the Latino equivalent of soap-opera; with more passion, more drama, doppelgangers, long-lost twin siblings, lovers, rivals, mortal enemies, shootings, comas, amnesia, mysteries… and of course, cliff-hangers. All of…
Indicative?
Perhaps ‘indicative’ was too strong a word to describe a series of votes taken by MPs to find an alternative Brexit strategy. After twice rejecting the government’s plan, MPs have failed to determine any alternative put to the house by…
Resigned
Local Hastings Borough councillor Dany Louise has resigned from the Labour ; In her resignation letter dated 13th February addressed to Council leader Peter Chowney, Cllr Louise accused the party leadership of making the Labour Party “a welcoming environment for…
Venezuela in Brief
Rather than using ballot boxes, Venezuela uses an electrical voting ballot: to begin with, there is no doubt whatever about that. Since 1998, elections in Venezuela have been automated (using touch-screen DRE voting machines which provide a Voter Verified Paper…
OPINION: Stop It, You’re Killing Us!
Amber Rudd starts her new job this month. Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions. An easy job really, in many ways she was born to do it. Mostly she just has to look the other way…
Campaigning For A 3rd Referendum
Editor’s note by Alan Bolwell The final party conferences before Brexit have given an opportunity for both major parties to clarify their negotiating positions. So far both parties have managed factions within their memberships by claiming to be perfectly clear…
Fighting Words
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell came to Hastings on 21st July to talk about local issues and how the Labour Party are preparing to address these issues with a local manifesto written from within the community. This was part of a…
Alfie’s Hope
Alfie Dingley is a 6-year-old boy who suffers a rare form of epilepsy, PCDH19, which causes regular and severe seizures. After having limited success with pharmaceutical steroid-based treatments in the UK, Alfie’s parents travelled to Holland where Alfie received cannabis-based…
HIP READ: Getting Headway
Enigmatic in title and content, Headway, the first novel by Kit Battenberg is many things An existential novel addressing – sometimes aggressively confronting - the human condition, whilst gesticulating dramatically towards a person’s power for great, emancipatory acts of rebellion…