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…
Arts and affordable housing meet in the Ore Valley
A local trust has announced a one day festival of music, food and arts in the Ore Valley on the site of the old Broomgrove Power Station Site, featuring the grand unveiling of a work by internationally renowned artist and…
Brexit Fish Stew – Toxic and Incendiary
By Kent Barker It was one of UKIP’s key platforms before last June’s referendum – Nigel Farage, stately as a ship’s figurehead, lead a flotilla of fishing vessels up the Thames to Westminster, trumpeting “we want our waters back”. His…
Home Secretary’s home targeted in refugee rehousing protest
Protestors gather outside the constituency home of Amber Rudd to protest the foreshortening of the Dubs amendment. By Sam Kinch Protestors gathered outside the constituency home of Hastings & Rye MP Amber Rudd on Sunday 12th February, to protest her…
Hastings Story Telling Festival
Two Clowns Trapped in a Cardboard World was played out in a set made entirely of cardboard at St Mary in the Castle as part of the Hastings Story Telling Festival. The play featured two clowns, Dik and Adam, who…
Jeremy Corbyn: Philosopher King
In Plato's Republic, Socrates predicts the coming of a Philosopher King and sets out the conditions necessary for a Good State in conveniently referenced dialogue with an interlocutor. In this discussion Socrates predicted that there would never be a perfect,…
University in climb-down confusion
By Robert Joyce University of Brighton in Hastings The University of Brighton have seemingly withdrawn their decision to close their operation in Hastings following growing legal pressure over the way their decision was reached, although statements from the University following…
Brexiteers, Bremainians and Blairites
by Alan Bolwell (Image by Catrin Austin) As tensions run unusual high in the political climate all sides are scrambling to prepare for a general election that could come as early as 13th October. With the markets in shock, the…