To Tell You The Truth, It’s Always Political
By Julia Kotziamani By defining themselves as ‘beyond politics’, the justice is missing from the Extinction Rebellion (XR) discourse surrounding global climate ; Some recent XR events have been fundamentally classist, racist and moving in a very unsavoury direction. The…
Chowney Appears In Perry’s Scope As The First Pre-Election Torpedoes Are Fired
In an article printed in Hastings in Focus, Hastings and Rye Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, Nick Perry, cited indices where areas of Hastings are highlighted as suffering from deprivation. He stated, “The newly-released 2019 Index of Multiple Deprivation shows Hastings…
Sausage Life!
The column which reserves the right to record your calls for training porpoises READER: Whoops! Bit of a typo there!MYSELF: What do you mean?READER: Up there, under your name. Porpoises. I think you meant purposesMYSELF: Not at all. On top…
Politikal Pokes by lobbytroll
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU SQUIRMSajid Javid, owner of the most insincere face outside of Boris Johnson’s, is, it seems, quite prepared to say absolutely anything in order to be included in the post-brexit dystopian nightmare dictatorship envisaged by Dominic…
Climate Justice and Modern Slavery
By Maya Evans “Slavery is the culture in other countries,” said Tory Cllr Mike Edwards during a full council motion discussing modern-day slavery in Britain. Actually, climate change is a class issue and an international social justice issue. It affects…
The Insider
Miko Peled was part of Israel’s elite: his grandfather signed the ‘Declaration of Independence’ and his father was a general in the Israel Defence Force, yet Miko (and his father) have been on a political, spiritual and cultural journey born…
Message From A Prison Cell To October Rebels
By Roger Hallam, Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion I have been here for several weeks and may be here for some time longer. But please remember to do this: Take all your rage and furyTake all your despair and heartbreakTake all…
Miko Peled
Transcript of speech delivered in HastingsSaturday 5 October 2019 The story that I tell comes from a rather strange or unique place because I come from this very Zionist, very patriotic background. Probably as Zionist and patriotic Israeli as you…
Trust The People
There was a noticeable silence at the anti-Brexit march in Brighton over the Labour Party’s conference weekend. All the commotion was at the front headed by prominent Remain supporting MPs, Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry, as the rest of the…
The Space Between Us
By Patsy Solankski Regarding Leave versus Remain, I don’t think that insulting someone’s IQ or calling them stupid helps one iota. A very clever, emotive and devious propaganda machine was used to separate this country, and it’s been extremely effective.…