Sausage Life
The column which is both charming and offensive at the same time READER: Goodbye spring, hello summer!MYSELF: Really? Where?READER: Weren’t you out celebrating Jack in the Green?MYSELF: If, by celebrating, you mean sneaking up on Morris Men and stealing the…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
DUMB AND DUMBERAccording to some polls, Nigel Farage’s hastily arranged Brexit Party is set to clean up at the EU election. Ghastly superannuated windbag Ann Widdecombe has come out of her woollen-lined cocoon to support the beer-swilling Frog King’s latest…
‘The Attorney General Of Her Majesty’s Lunatics’ – An Early Campaigner For Mental Health Patients
By Robin Holtom In 1831 John Thomas Perceval, son of the assassinated Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, was incarcerated in Ticehurst Asylum. He later wrote an account of his experiences. At that time Ticehurst took only the wealthiest lunatics and though…
Politikal Pokes By Lobbytroll
I’M A POLITICIAN, VOTE ME OUT OF HEREFollowing the announcement from Nissan that they are pulling out of their agreement to produce the X Trail car at their Sunderland factory, batty Eurosceptic MP John Redwood has come up with a…
Sausage Life
The column which says you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose READER: You should be : About what?READER: Issue 125. Picking on Nigel Farage : You mean the bit…
Sausage Life
The column which believes that in the country of the bland, the one-idea’d man is king READER: Did you see the amazing photo of the black hole?MYSELF: I saw it. A very good : Oh come on, don’t pretend you’re…
Invest A Pound To Save An Icon
Builders have started work restoring the Observer Building - one of Hastings’ most iconic sites. Now, to fully realise its potential and generate jobs, homes and leisure opportunities, the team behind it needs your help. By Caf Fean and Beth…
Politikal Pokes By Lobbytroll
IT’S THE STUPIDITY, STUPIDAs embarrassing to the UK as Brexit is, nothing causes foreign visitors’ jaws to drop more than the flag-draped, cerebrally challenged rabble currently camped outside the Houses of Parliament. With their cretinous football chants, moronic slogans and…
Sausage Life
The column which believes that what you lack in empathy you can more than make up for with spiteful malice MYSELF: Why the short face? READER: I’m so excited I can’t wait. I’ve just taken out a subscription to Sky TV’s…
Out Of Africa
David Dennis looks at the lives and loyalties of Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad. North Lodge St LeonardsPICTURE: David Dennis There are some fascinating coincidences in the lives of these two writers: Rider Haggard wrote about Africa at the same…