Importance of Being Arthur
By Nick Pelling How much does it matter what names we use? Evidently, quite a bit. Take the Royal Family for example. They are, of course, the Windsors. But actually, they just gave themselves that name because their actual name,Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,…
Springtime for Boris
The Downing Street Spider had leaked yet another anonymous diary entryto HIP. “With one bound he was free” … perhaps that has too much of the Dick Tracy and not enough of the Promethean about it! And when we speak…
Designating the non-designated: protecting Hastings built heritage
Alex Moojen has lived in Hastings for 13 years and currently works in Housing Support. He recently completed a MSc in Architectural Conservation at the University of Kent. Driving up West Hill Road, St Leonards I once again noted the…
Of Goats and Goebbels
By Nick Pelling When history turns bad, language itself has a tendency to shrivel up and become almost meaningless. The creature in the Kremlin tells us that there is no ‘war’ in Ukraine. It is merely a ‘special’ operation. The…
Feeling Priti and Witty and Bright
The Spider has leaked us a diary entry discovered in Whitehall a couple of weeks ago: Dear Diary, By the time anyone reads this I may no longer be Home Secretary. And that will be REALLY unfair! All I’ve done…
Where to begin
By Millie Cerys Once you start paying attention to little things, you see them continuously. They become ever more present until they are all you can see. It’s like life is laughing at you. Like you didn’t pay enough attention…
Beautiful Game – Ugly Times
By Nick Pelling One wonders how much the Russian führer will care that UEFA have taken the Champions League final away from his country. Or that even FIFA - formerly so deeply saturated in Russian money streams - has found…
SATIRE: Carrie On Partying
The Spider has passed HIP a copy of a draft email found at Number 10… Yo, Kay! How lovely to hear from you after all this time!! Yes, that Toga party at Warwick does seem like a long time ago.…
UBI: the real levelling up
Councillor and deputy mayor Ruby Cox makes the case for Universal Basic Income and invites you to a debate. You may recently have seen news items about Universal Basic Income in the mainstream media such as the Metro, a sure…
Rock-a-Nore: once the Eco-Nore of the East
Local historian Steve Peak explores some of the ways Rock-a-Nore has been ; Instead of pumping all our sewage into the sea, why can’t Hastings have a recycling plant to turn it into fertiliser? And rather than ruin the countryside…