The Cobra Effect
In 2003, Barbera Streisand became very alarmed when an aerial photograph of her Malibu beach home was published on an internet website. Subsequently she unsuccessfully attempted to sue Kenneth Adelman at for posting the image believing that it would lead…
Sausage Life
The column that doesn’t know anything about bigotry, but knows what it doesn’t like READER: Did you have a bet on the name of the Royal baby? MYSELF: I had a fiver to win on Frank, and a pound each…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
WHAT A BOMBER The Tony Blair historical dustbin beckons for Theresa May. Couldn’t the bombing decision have been postponed until parliament reconvened? Or does political expediency trump democracy (no pun intended) every time? Exactly what part did the oily, undemocratic,…
Creative Conditions
Simone Witney with Sam Kinch and Jon Dunham Mary Beard – a jackal? Throughout Mary Beard’s: ‘Women in Power, a Manifesto’, she represents Ancient Greek myth as proof of a predominant, centuries-old desire of men to crush women. She ignores…
Sausage Life
Bird Guano The column which cuts off its nose to spite its face and then complains that it can’t smell the coffee READER: 100 issues! Amazing. Did you get a telegram from The Queen? MYSELF: No, but we got a…
Sausage Life
The column which, although it disapproves of what you say, defends to the death its right to punch you in the face. READER: I really can’t believe this Brexit thing is dragging on like this. I mean the people have…
Crowlianity – The Second Instalment
Richard Thomas No, it’s not 2018. It is the year 114. According to the calendar of Aleister Crowley, the ‘wickedest man in the world’, whose last years were spent in Hastings. Horus at Temple of Edfu This date is calculated…
Politikal Pokes by Lobbytroll
L’ODEUR DU POISSON Some prominent Brexiteers (the usual bunch of half-baked stirrers as it happens) are now flapping about like floundering cod over the latest EU fishing quota news. Unsurprisingly, one of them is the British MEP who, when he…
Emmaus – Treasure Trove and Nirvana for the Homeless
Miranda Innes People come to Emmaus from far and wide, hunting for treasure among the miscellany of vintage, antique and up-cycled furniture and bric-a-brac. The warehouse in Whitworth Road, near Sainsbury’s, is a Mecca for discerning bargain-hunters: it is the…
The Beast of Hastings – Aleister Crowley #1
Crowley in Ceremonial Dress Richard Thomas ‘The Wickedest Man in the World’, as the press called him, died in Hastings in 1947. There are people living locally who believe an aura of evil, his evil, lurks in the locations associated…