Changing Hastings – Or Is It?
By Sam Kinch Community Organiser at Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust “This seaside town has stepped out of the shadow of its twin. One could say it was gentrifying, were it not built for the gentry” Tom Dyckhoff (The Guardian,…
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The column which reserves the right to record your calls for training porpoises READER: Whoops! Bit of a typo there!MYSELF: What do you mean?READER: Up there, under your name. Porpoises. I think you meant purposesMYSELF: Not at all. On top…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU SQUIRMSajid Javid, owner of the most insincere face outside of Boris Johnson’s, is, it seems, quite prepared to say absolutely anything in order to be included in the post-brexit dystopian nightmare dictatorship envisaged by Dominic…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
BACKSTOP FRONTSTOP THREE BAGS FULL OF CASH Reading between the lines of Johnson’s latest rambling bag of nonsense, it looks to Lobbytroll like the DUP are in for another massive bribe in exchange for their government support. This time it…
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The column that self inflates, but is difficult to get back in the bag MYSELF: What are you doing up there?READER: I’m conducting an : Well seeing as you’re on top of a stepladder, would you mind removing that cobweb…
Are You Good At Listening?
Hastings and Rother branch of the Samaritans does amazing work, and needs more volunteers. Ben Bruges met Yvette Harris, the branch director to find out what’s ; One of Chad Varah’s first duties when ordained in 1935 was to take…
Eddie Izzard on his Bexhill winter wartime railway:
“See how we struggled against the forces of tyranny” Bexhill Museum’s latest exhibition features a railway model of snowy Bexhill in 1940, commissioned by comedian, activist and local patron, Eddie Izzard. By Poppy Prescott Train sets and railway models seem…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
BONKERS BORIS AND THE HMS BOUNTY What on earth are we to do about the Prime Minister now he’s gone Captain Bligh and the crew of The Bounty are on the verge of mutiny? It’s all very well banging him…
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The column that thinks Fifty Shades of Grey is what dogs see when they are trying to choose paint in Farrow & Ball READER: What sign are you?MYSELF: I’m a Librarian, as if it were any of your : Just…
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The column that believes in the right to wear a hat, even when it is unnecessary WARRIOR’S WOESNewly relegated Hastings & St Leonards Warriors were beaten 8-0 away by Cockmarlin Thunderbolts last Saturday, their fifth 8-0 defeat in five games.…