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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…
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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…
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…
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MONEY DON’T TALK IT SCREAMS The family run enterprise of Saudi Arabia, super-wealthy patron of unscrupulous and sociopathic arms dealers, worldwide exporter of black gold and Wahhabi terrorism, has finally…
Sausage Life!
The column whose terms apply but not its conditions MYSELF: My first is in peanuts but not in custard… READER: Oh I love these brain teasers. MYSELF: I know. My…
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TRUFFLES AT MILL A warning to any talk radio broadcaster foolish enough to suggest that deliberately misleading misinformation was the driving force behind the “will o’ the people” Brexit vote;…
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BY Bird Guano The column which makes its bed but often forgets to lie in it ROGUE STARLING IN SHARK ATTACK READER: That’s a ridiculous headline. Where are you going…
“I am a very wild bird and like liberty” Marianne North 1830-1890
An early woman explorer and botanist from Hastings. By Gillian Metcalfe “Scorching sun, drenching rain, fearful road conditions, travel sickness, leeches and giant spiders” were some of the conditions met…
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The column which believes that life is a journey, but often the services have unsatisfactory toilet facilities READER: What about Theresa then? MYSELF: What about her? READER: What else? The…
Scott May’s Daredevil Stunt Show
By Oliver Tookey If daredevils and destruction are your thing then it is well worth checking out Scott May’s Daredevil Stunt Show, currently on tour around the UK. It arrived…
Netflix creates a new audience for Asian Cinema
By Ella Wilson (student at Sussex Coast College) The last decade has been filled with brilliant minds exploring the limits of technology with a simple purpose: making our lives easier.…
Spirited Away
Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli A review by Safiya Williams Young, student at Hastings Academy PICTURE: fathome events Imagine if you accidentally entered a spirit world…
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LET THE HARD BREX BEGIN Like the perpetual threat of a shower, PM Theresa May appears to be always on the verge of bursting into tears, even during our delightful…
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Open Letter Dear Hastings Borough Council. Do you think there might be the flimsiest chance you could do something about the 16 bars of tinny, inept, patronizing, ghastly, amateurish “music”,…
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BY Bird Guano The column which wanders lonely as a cloud, but never seems to come across any daffodils. READER: have you seen the new zoo? MYSELF: Zoo? READER: Yes.…
Lucien Pissarro and his Rebellious Daughter
BY Gillian Metcalfe Lucien Pissarro was born in Paris in 1863. The oldest of seven, he had four brothers and two sisters. His father, Camille Pissarro, was the well-known, hugely…
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The column which uses a periscope even when it isn’t underwater READER: Why the long face? MYSELF: I’m getting into character. READER: Gosh, that sounds interesting, what for? MYSELF: I’m…
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PRITI OBVIOUS The MP and fake, Priti “Vacant” Patel, whose shameless ambition knows no bounds, guested on “Question Time” last Friday. She appeared comfortable with the fact that the only…
Creative Cosmos: The Beacon
If you can tear yourself away from the stunning view which hurls a shining arc of sea at you on the bend of Priory Road, you’ll find a ragged path…
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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Perhaps one should blame the current trend for acceptable obfuscation and bare-faced mendacity in politics for the Lewis Carroll situation we find ourselves in in Hastings?…
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THE UNDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Mrs. May has ordered that members of the cabinet remain locked in the headmistress’s office at Chequers until a ‘solution’ to the insoluble question of the Dog’s…
Our Man in Moscow
John Cole and Simone Witney Many of us know John Cole’s iconic photos of Hastings fishermen, a product of his close relationship with them, but his sympathies are international. This…
Sausage Life
The column which thinks that tired, worn-out cliché is the elephant in the room READER: Football’s coming home! And on top of a glorious heatwave to boot! MYSELF: I assume…
Let’s All Keep Bees to Win the “War on Drugs”
Gareth Stevens If you are like me, you have probably noticed an indisputable correlation between a downturn in your mental wellbeing and incessantly cruising the internet and repeatedly checking your…
Learning to Change the World – Learning to Think
The common link between my time working at a hotel that subsequently burned down, interviewing Basil Brush and spending ten weeks walking backwards around Sussex with a stop-go lollipop and…
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PAINTING THE TOWN GOLD According to Adam Stephens and Finbarr O’Connell, of Heritage Lottery Fund-appointed administrators Smith & Williamson LLP: “After careful assessment of all offers received for the pier,…
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The column that won’t shoot until it sees the whites of your eggs READER: I see there were riots at the Poundland closing-down sale. MYSELF: I’m not surprised. There was…
ADVERTORIAL: Babies Can Teach!
Alison Waterhouse In my work as an Educational Psychotherapist, I’d been concerned for many years about the way poor mental health can affect children’s long term ability to learn from…
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The column which thinks that a cambio is as good as a siesta READER: You know what’s missing from this column, don’t you? MYSELF: A crossword? READER: Wow! How did…
The Future of Energy
This supplement, the first in what we hope will become a bi-annual publication, reviews the future of energy: how its generation, supply and demand is undergoing rapid revolution along with…
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SEA CHANGE – AS GOOD AS A REST? Empty office buildings in Havelock Rd, ‘business parks’ that decimate areas of outstanding natural beauty whilst remaining unfinished and deserted, and the…
Action Man – Is he the kind of man you want to be?
Clement Boland, a former soldier, gives HIP extracts from his dissertation - part of a Designer/Maker course at Hastings College. The idea of war as a competitive game, with overtones…
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BORIS’S JET I’m not referring here to the inept Foreign Secretary’s ability to urinate over high walls, useful though that might be. No, this is something quite different. Boris Johnson…
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The column firmly aimed at the louche, disaffected bon viveur and the properly bearded man-about-town READER: The Royal Wedding! Did you see it? MYSELF: See it? I was there mate.…
Hastings Arts Forum – Inclusivity and ambition
Being a working artist can be a very individual and isolated endeavour. The myth of the starving artist in the garret, although somewhat romantic and archaic, is ofttimes the lived…
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The column which looks a bit like Johnny Depp when the light hits it in a certain way READER: What did you make of this year’s Jack in the Green?…
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GRAMMATICA FANATICUS At a time of national educational crises, when under-maintained schools are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit dedicated teaching staff, the government has decided to invest £50 million…
The Cobra Effect
In 2003, Barbera Streisand became very alarmed when an aerial photograph of her Malibu beach home was published on an internet website. Subsequently she unsuccessfully attempted to sue Kenneth Adelman…
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The column that doesn’t know anything about bigotry, but knows what it doesn’t like READER: Did you have a bet on the name of the Royal baby? MYSELF: I had…
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WHAT A BOMBER The Tony Blair historical dustbin beckons for Theresa May. Couldn’t the bombing decision have been postponed until parliament reconvened? Or does political expediency trump democracy (no pun…