OPINION: Will Labour blow it once again?
By Dave Young Will the Labour Party really carry through on its support for a second referendum? If history is any guide, I fear it will bottle out. Under its current dogmatic, inspiration-light leader there’s little evidence of political courage…
Spillage People
How Recycling Points Made Fly-tipping the Easy Option Several years ago, in Cornwallis Gardens where I live, Hastings Borough Council installed three recycling points. Whilst they were somewhat incongruous, the general consensus was that the encouragement of recycling was a…
May Poll Dancing
The PM’s speech at Conservative Conference, Birmingham Reviewed by Colin Gibson Loathe as I am to admit it, sometimes only a worn-out cliché will do the trick. Yes, the first few minutes of Mrs. May’s appearance, (delayed half an hour…
Sausage life!
The column that won’t shoot until it sees the whites of your eggs READER: I see there were riots at the Poundland closing-down sale. MYSELF: I’m not surprised. There was 10% off everything. READER: So what happened? MYSELF: Apparently the…
The Square
Dir: Ruben Östlund Kino Teatr, St. Leonards Ostensibly a film about the chronic bullshit afflicting the upper echelons of the art world, this fascinating film gradually leads us, by way of cleverly-honed vignettes, down another path. It opens outside a…
Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne at St. Mary in the Castle. Reviewed by Colin Gibson Newcastle folk rock band Lindisfarne has produced, in its various incarnations, an extraordinary collection of great material spanning almost fifty years, the vast proportion of which was penned by the…
AUTOMATA ON THE PIER
A season of events on Hastings Pier kicks off with an extraordinary interactive exhibition of automata, including mechanical toys and other inventions. Hastings Pier, 14 Mar 2018-15 Apr 2018 REVIEW BY Colin Gibson Hastings Pier and community arts company Culture Shift have…
OPINION: The Means of Repression
Colin Gibson takes issue with Britain’s booming arms trade Our despicable and morally-bankrupt weapons industry has successfully hoodwinked and bribed its way into the national ignorance. Since the Brexit referendum, export licences worth £3 billion have been granted to UK…
REVIEW: The Post
Steven Spielberg said of his latest film, eleven months in the making, “This is the fastest film I ever made.” The reason? “The level of urgency to make the movie was because of the current climate of this administration, bombarding…
LETTERS I HAVEN’T WRITTEN, Gwyneth Herbert at The Kino Teatr Nov 29th
reviewed by Colin Gibson St Leonards' Kino Teatr was lucky enough to be one of the hand-picked venues for a preview of Letters I Haven’t Written, the brand new 2017 touring show by award-winning composer, lyricist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist…