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Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
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…
Creative Conditions
Simone Witney with Sam Kinch and Jon Dunham Mary Beard – a jackal? Throughout Mary Beard’s: ‘Women in Power, a Manifesto’, she represents Ancient Greek myth as proof of a…
Sausage Life
Bird Guano The column which cuts off its nose to spite its face and then complains that it can’t smell the coffee READER: 100 issues! Amazing. Did you get a…
Sausage Life
The column which, although it disapproves of what you say, defends to the death its right to punch you in the face. READER: I really can’t believe this Brexit thing…
Crowlianity – The Second Instalment
Richard Thomas No, it’s not 2018. It is the year 114. According to the calendar of Aleister Crowley, the ‘wickedest man in the world’, whose last years were spent in…
Politikal Pokes by Lobbytroll
L’ODEUR DU POISSON Some prominent Brexiteers (the usual bunch of half-baked stirrers as it happens) are now flapping about like floundering cod over the latest EU fishing quota news. Unsurprisingly,…
Emmaus – Treasure Trove and Nirvana for the Homeless
Miranda Innes People come to Emmaus from far and wide, hunting for treasure among the miscellany of vintage, antique and up-cycled furniture and bric-a-brac. The warehouse in Whitworth Road, near…
The Beast of Hastings – Aleister Crowley #1
Crowley in Ceremonial Dress Richard Thomas ‘The Wickedest Man in the World’, as the press called him, died in Hastings in 1947. There are people living locally who believe an…
Fat Tuesday 2018
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK RICHARDS
A Brush With Violence Ghosts, Hamlet and The Art of Butoh
Butoh is an art form which is at the same time instantly recognisable, but extremely elusive of description or definition. Like the paintings of Francis Bacon, the way one is…
A Device to Secure Attention Art And Commerce in Documentary Film – Is a Clash Inevitable?
BY KEITH RODWAY ‘A literary skeleton, plus film illustrations – such, almost without exception, are all films’ - Dziga Vertov Former Professor of Anthropology at the University of Papua New…
An Unhealthy Industry
AN UNHEALTHY INDUSTRY As reported, there is currently a campaign to stop the National Health Service being undermined - to the obvious probable detriment of people’s individual health. A large…
HIP bookshops
Bookshops with a novel approach by Kate Barnwell It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in pursuit of a good book must be in want of a good…
There’s No Accounting For It
by Peter Cobrin I want to talk about accountability and I want to talk about democracy and I want to start at a school near you. All state schools are…
Graze in the Grand Manner
Cassoulet of pancetta, sausage, Guinea fowl & baked apple.” “Beetroot risotto, horseradish cream & red mullet”. “Sardines Venetian style with white onions, pine nuts & golden sultana.” With: “Picpoul de…
The Facebook Page, the Six-Year-Old, and the Daily Cocktail
By Kim Hall “Have you done your meds?” is a phrase that is repeated several times in my house during the course of a morning, and accompanied by various threats…
14 year-old from Hastings is third best unicyclist in the world
by Pete Donohue Dekki Sudiarta, born and raised in Hastings, first discovered his natural talent as a unicyclist at age eleven. The Rye Community College student was initially inspired…
Brookes & Leal bring an icon of contemporary literature to Hastings
Review: ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’ plus support from Andrew Grainger, Richard Heslop, Michael Smith and David Quantick. By Pete Donohue Recently relocated back to Hastings, arts event producers and…
Quick march: Intrepid trio plan to ‘yomp’ like Saxons
Forget walking like an Egyptian, or moving like Jagger, to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings an intrepid trio of latter-day Saxons are aiming to recreate a…
Irvine Welsh hits Hastings – An exclusive HIP interview
Ahead of ‘An Evening with Irvine Welsh’, local promoters Simone Brookes & Rossana Leal caught up with the internationally acclaimed Edinburgh author for an intimate chat about Hastings, music and…
Letter from a Wild West Hillbilly
No. 3: Madness is creeping up the Hill By Pete Donohue When I moved to Hastings thirty years ago – yep, not a native but a BICCLIDFL – someone told…
What do you call people who live in Hastings?
Last issue, we had a few people get in touch to object to our use of the word 'Hastonians' on the front cover. The correct word, they said, was 'Hastingers',…
To whom it may concern,
I am writing in response to the article titled 'Julian Assange is a political prisoner, not a fugitive from Justice' in the latest edition of The Hastings Independent. In my…
Dear Metro,
I'd like to briefly pen this response to your article on the 23rd January All Hastings – Shoreditch on Sea is on the up and up says Alison Taylor. It…