HIP Views Cycling from the Slipstream
If you think that a bunny hop is the kind of jump a rabbit does when it’s surprised, then you’re clearly a turkey or a squirrel. In the cycling world, a bunny hop is what you do when both wheels…
Sausage Life!
The column that maintains that any resemblance between it and real life is purely coincidental READER: Isn’t it great that the new Doctor Who is a woman? MYSELF: Yes, in the same way I think it is great that Popeye’s…
Politikal Pokes
Opinionated jabs for the pointy-fingered By Lobbytroll PEER PRESSURE On our letters page you can read, if you have the time, a long impassioned plea to “talk up the pier” from Lord (sic) Brett McLean. In it he implores us…
Is Eating Insects the Future of Sustainability?
By Mark Killick Functional Nutritional Therapist A recent report by the world’s leading scientists on climate change has warned that we have only about twelve years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of °C. Rising that much…
Sausage Life!
By Bird Guano The column which frequently looks at gift horses, but not necessarily in the mouth MYSELF: Have you ever had PPI? READER: As a matter of fact I have. A particularly bad strain as it happens, which tends…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
FARAGE BALLOON Speaking for those he promised to represent by regularly attending the European Parliament, Nigel Farage, privately educated banker, absentee UkIP MEP for South East England and mouthpiece of the working man, has made a surprise appearance in Brussels…
Sustainability in the South East
Charu Sharma PhD looks at the problems and finds a way forward for Hastings What is sustainability? The term sustainability is used in multiple contexts these days in connection with the environment, cities and towns, design, lifestyle, the workplace. The…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
MONEY DON’T TALK IT SCREAMS The family run enterprise of Saudi Arabia, super-wealthy patron of unscrupulous and sociopathic arms dealers, worldwide exporter of black gold and Wahhabi terrorism, has finally succumbed to the mother of all hubris. As the petrol-driven…
Sausage Life!
The column whose terms apply but not its conditions MYSELF: My first is in peanuts but not in custard… READER: Oh I love these brain teasers. MYSELF: I know. My second isin Spain but not in READER: Not in algebra?…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
TRUFFLES AT MILL A warning to any talk radio broadcaster foolish enough to suggest that deliberately misleading misinformation was the driving force behind the “will o’ the people” Brexit vote; your switchboard will soon be jammed by calls from apoplectic…