/////REFLECTIONS: Milestones and Shackles
Reflections from the Lantern Society, Hastings’ Candlelit Acoustic Club, by Trevor Moss A trio of special occasions befell the Lantern Society over the last two months. December saw our second Christmas Special. It was standing room only, too many players…
Make A Date To Join The Race For Life In Hastings
By Jenny Ainsworth This year, for the first time, Cancer Research UK is inviting everyone in the area – women, men and children - to join the Race for Life. There are events for people of all ages and…
RUN – Kevin Armstrong
Wishing Tree Records 2018 CD reviewed by Patrick Carabine Kevin Armstrong is Iggy Pop’s regular guitarist. He has collaborated with Bowie and Morrissey, worked with a host of others including Paul McCartney, Roy Orbison, Sinéad O’Connor, Prefab Sprout and Brian Eno.…
End of an era?
Hastings and the English Language Teaching WorldFiona McGarry celebrates the history of language teaching and looks at what current changes may mean for the town Mention Hastings to most people in the UK and they will think of the battle…
Bookbuster Book Review
Unlocking Sustainable Citiesby Paul ChattertonPublished by Pluto, RRP £ Review by Tim Barton Towns and cities across the world are suffering an on-going assault on their diverse systems, and need that diversity to be resilient as much as the ecosystems…
Struggling To Adapt
Why some attempts to halt climate change are failing. There’s no doubting the increasing prominence of climate change in the public consciousness, particularly among young people. Our government’s record on the environment rests mainly on unfunded aspirations and passing the…
Marine Court Seafront Retail in Troubled Times
Marine Court, the vast art deco building in the shape of a Cunard ocean liner, dominates the St Leonards seafront. Erected in 1936-38 and housing over 150 flats in its 14 storeys it was, when completed, the tallest residential block…
Taxing Credulity
HIP writer ‘Granma’ argues UK tax havens and avoidance schemes are barely legal, completely unfair and impoverish us all J. Paul Getty’s formula for success was, “Rise early, work hard, strike oil”. The modern equivalent might be, “Find a niche…
Jason Yarde – #AcouBomb
Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, bandleader and composer Jason Yarde is one of Britain’s foremost jazz musicians and will be familiar to Hastings jazz heads as one-sixth of supergroup Hexagonal. He talks to Andrew Myers about his new project, big band Acoutastic Bombastic…
Enjoycation Is One!
An education not-for-profit business set up last January in Hastings, Enjoycation CIC, has just celebrated its first birthday, and Director Paula Radice looks back over the last – very successful – twelve months. “We started with six children, and now…