The Airport that Never Took Off
‘Fasten your seatbelts please, we will shortly be landing at Hastings Airport.’ Today you’d have to fly to Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, or Hastings, Nebraska to hear such an announcement – but it could have happened here. By Dave Young.…
Sausage Life
The column which, without proper maintenance, would collapse under the weight of its own self-importance. WARRIORS RISE FROM THE ASHES Since the humiliating departure of no-nonsense shoot-from-the-hip, messiah complex manager Franco Machiavelli, widely blamed for Hastings & St Leonards Warriors…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
NO-SEE TV Hastings pier, as well as being a fibreglass Noah’s Ark and home of the biggest chain store charm bracelet in the world, is like a wind farm, except with CCTV cameras instead of giant electricity-generating fans. There are…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORKHOUSE AND PENSIONS Has our cling-on MP Amber Rudd no sense of shame? This Dickensian government appears determined to inflict its Oliver Twist values on a society already reeling from the sucker punch of austerity, but…
St Leonards Post Office
Smiling bravely The sell-off one year on. By Rod Webb As Britain madly shops in the dark of winter streets, illuminated shop windows lure us in with music and bright lights. Christmas is nearly here again with all its many…
To B Movie or Not to B Movie
Thrills and spills at the Electric Palace Cinema By Andrew Myers Melodramatic acting, dodgy special effects and plot holes you could fly a badly realised spaceship through – all music to the ears of John Knowles and Robin Elliott-Knowles, the father…
Sausage Life!
The column which avoids metaphor because when you are trying to sell someone a rudderless ship, it’s best not to mention the leaky lifeboats READER: Black Friday! I’m so excited! MYSELF: I imagine you are. What kind of bargain are…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
POSH & BREX We recently attended a meeting of the Eurosceptic Institute for Mumbo Jumbo, Baloney & Contemptible Bunkum, where we asked chief mannikin Jacob Rees-Mogg, what possible reason there might be for a man of his social position to…
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…