Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
PAINTING THE TOWN GOLD According to Adam Stephens and Finbarr O’Connell, of Heritage Lottery Fund-appointed administrators Smith & Williamson LLP: “After careful assessment of all offers received for the pier, the successful transfer to Abid Gulzar, the owner of Eastbourne…
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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…
ADVERTORIAL: Babies Can Teach!
Alison Waterhouse In my work as an Educational Psychotherapist, I’d been concerned for many years about the way poor mental health can affect children’s long term ability to learn from a very early age. So I devised a way in…
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The column which thinks that a cambio is as good as a siesta READER: You know what’s missing from this column, don’t you? MYSELF: A crossword? READER: Wow! How did you know I was going to say that? MYSELF: Oddly…
The Future of Energy
This supplement, the first in what we hope will become a bi-annual publication, reviews the future of energy: how its generation, supply and demand is undergoing rapid revolution along with incredible technological innovations and inspirational initiatives, some of which are…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
SEA CHANGE – AS GOOD AS A REST? Empty office buildings in Havelock Rd, ‘business parks’ that decimate areas of outstanding natural beauty whilst remaining unfinished and deserted, and the still undemolished Queensbury House, a tatty multi-storey 1960s eyesore which…
Action Man – Is he the kind of man you want to be?
Clement Boland, a former soldier, gives HIP extracts from his dissertation - part of a Designer/Maker course at Hastings College. The idea of war as a competitive game, with overtones of manliness, fair play, rules, discipline, and clearly delineated teams,…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
BORIS’S JET I’m not referring here to the inept Foreign Secretary’s ability to urinate over high walls, useful though that might be. No, this is something quite different. Boris Johnson has now demanded that he be provided with his own…
Sausage Life
The column firmly aimed at the louche, disaffected bon viveur and the properly bearded man-about-town READER: The Royal Wedding! Did you see it? MYSELF: See it? I was there mate. READER: No! Really? MYSELF: If you were watching it on…
Hastings Arts Forum – Inclusivity and ambition
Being a working artist can be a very individual and isolated endeavour. The myth of the starving artist in the garret, although somewhat romantic and archaic, is ofttimes the lived reality for creative people trying to gain a foothold in…