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…
Highlands Crakes
Kent Barker cracks the case of the Highlands Crakes. All too often historical research reaches a dead end - no records exist or can be found of this event or that person. But when the way opens up it can…
Sausage Life
The column which believes that although Cod does exist, some chips are fake MYSELF: Brexit is beginning to feel like a painful case of recurring haemorrhoids. I sense that we are all about to be engulfed by an avalanche of…
Politikal Pokes by Lobbytroll
FROG MARCHNigel Farage, desperately channelling the Jarrow marchers of 1936, put up a message on his Facebook page accompanied by a photo of him in his used car salesman coat and spiv hat. Looking pie-eyed and clutching his trademark man-of-the-people…
A Journey Home
Gareth Stevens reviews the Tom Hunter exhibition curated by Lucy Bell and David Rhodes at Hastings Museum. Tom Hunter’s photographic portraits of Hastings taxi drivers are brimful with tenderness and empathy. They celebrate the deep inclusivity of our coastal town…
Sausage Life
The column which thinks that facts are merely irritating obstacles blocking the road to truth MYSELF: I’m trying to find out who are the world’s most punchable people. That is to say, those whose ubiquitous inventions are neither use nor…
Respect Existence or Expect Resistance
Simone Witney talks to Lucy Bell and David Rhodes about the Tom Hunter show Karam at Rock-a-norePICTURE: Tom Hunter The title is a phrase I spotted among a wall of slogans written by the public at the Ian Hislop exhibition…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME IT’S A COMMODITYHastings Borough Council and the admirable Surviving Streets UK are working in partnership so they can use Churchwood House as offices and a base for their foodbank. As Peter Chowney, leader of Hastings Borough…
James And Decimus Burton
The Burtons were commissioned to erect ‘edifices suitable to the reception of genteel families’, but Gill Metcalfe wonders if they’re now past their sell-by date? All the Burton children practised archery on the archery ground at the bottom of West…
Sausage Life
The column which thinks that in a desert, even a mirage is a relief READER: So what did you do for Valentine’s Day?MYSELF: Oh, the usual. The night before, I had my friend Banksy stencil a satirical depiction of the…