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…
Sausage Life
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.…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
FULFILLING THE AIRHEAD QUOTANever let anyone tell you that the Tories are a party of misogynistic throwbacks. Now that slippery yes-woman Home Secretary Priti “Vacant” Patel and Minister for Evasion Angela Leadsom, are safely ensconced inside the tent pissing out,…
The Practicalities Of Self-Publishing
By Siobhan Harkin In the previous edition (HIP 135) we looked at some of the technological and commercial reasons why authors are choosing to self-publish, rather than attempting to find a traditional publisher for their work. Simply put, as large…
How Convergence In The Publishing Industry Created A Micropublishing Revolution
By Siobhan Harkin What is a book? The United Nations defines a book as “a nonperiodical printed publication of at least 49 pages excluding covers.” Since the great inventions of paper and printing, the book itself has changed very little…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
I DON’T NORMALLY READ THIS NEWSPAPER BUT…Perhaps we were short on content, but it appears that we have now decided to publish things because “they didn’t think we would” (LEAVING THE EU – In the interests of remaining neutral, issue…
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The column that thinks there’s nothing beats a good cigar after a bit of arson MYSELF: How do you feel about the EU, now that we’re in the middle of a constitutional crisis?READER: What constitutional crisis? Is there a constitutional…