Where has all the Green Gone?
Julia Hilton of the Hastings Green party has been studying the Area Action Plan (see news story here) which could transform the town over the next 25 years, and wonders if the planners aren’t missing a raft of environmental opportunities…
Stormy Waters
As French fishermen attack British boats, Richard Price says Brexit will mean tough times ahead for the UK and Hastings fishing communities Hastings fishermen, along with others around the UK, are beginning to feel betrayed by Brexit. They are coming…
READER LETTER: Where’s the Cancer?
IN RESPONSE TO ‘What on Earth are You Eating?’ from issue 108 available here. Your recent story on GM Crops and the herbicide glyphosate leads me to wonder why other media outlets seem deaf to the dangers. Following the California court…
ERDOGAN’S SINKING SHIP
Talk of Donald Trump’s possible impeachment has pushed his sanctions against NATO ally Turkey off the front pages. But the US leader’s intemperate reaction to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s continued detention of US citizen Pastor Andrew Brunson on espionage charges…
READER LETTER: Green Flagged
IN RESPONSE TO ‘Council scoops award for town's 'outstanding' parks’ from issue 107 available here In your 10th August issue, Bernard McGinley questions whether Hastings Country Park should have a Green Flag award given the landslip in Ecclesbourne Glen, the closure of…
Aping Amber
When MP Amber Rudd blogged a video about how all was well with Hastings, a number of residents took exception to her analysis. Local actor Sabina Arthur decided to produce her own tongue-in-cheek video in a similar style, also set…
Please do Better, Jeremy
Dave Young argues that while the Labour Leader seems to be hanging himself over the anti-Semitism row, someone else is providing the rope I tend to prefer cock-up to conspiracy theories when considering most political events. One advantage of getting…
Seeking a Peaceful Revolution
My piece about anarchism in this section a few months ago was met with a certain amount of irritated disbelief – which is fair enough, really. Take anarchism as a method of analysis. Basically, it tells you to strip society…
Captive Market
By Graham Street In the last decade all but one of Hastings’ schools has been converted into an academy. The policy of local authority (LA) governed schools turning into state funded but privately controlled ones was initiated by the Labour…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
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 response to her repeated failure to negotiate the greasy pole…