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…
Politikal Pokes
Opinionated jabs for the pointy-fingered By Lobbytroll PEER PRESSURE On our letters page you can read, if you have the time, a long impassioned plea to “talk up the pier” from Lord (sic) Brett McLean. In it he implores us…
Is Eating Insects the Future of Sustainability?
By Mark Killick Functional Nutritional Therapist A recent report by the world’s leading scientists on climate change has warned that we have only about twelve years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of °C. Rising that much…
Sausage Life!
By Bird Guano The column which frequently looks at gift horses, but not necessarily in the mouth MYSELF: Have you ever had PPI? READER: As a matter of fact I have. A particularly bad strain as it happens, which tends…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
FARAGE BALLOON Speaking for those he promised to represent by regularly attending the European Parliament, Nigel Farage, privately educated banker, absentee UkIP MEP for South East England and mouthpiece of the working man, has made a surprise appearance in Brussels…
Sustainability in the South East
Charu Sharma PhD looks at the problems and finds a way forward for Hastings What is sustainability? The term sustainability is used in multiple contexts these days in connection with the environment, cities and towns, design, lifestyle, the workplace. The…