If you go down to the woods today…
By Chris Hurrell on behalf of Save Ecclesbourne Glen (SEG) Save Ecclesbourne Glen (SEG) would like to respond to Councillor Colin Fitzgerald’s comments made in Hugh Sullivan’s article, entitled ‘Going Nowhere’, in issue 105 of HIP. Councillor Fitzgerald states that…
Happy Birthday and get well soon!
The NHS recently celebrated its 70th year of providing free health care. Many of us, myself included, owe our lives to this incredible service. Now we must fight to save the NHS from systemic underfunding and privatisation. By Alan Bolwell…
Boycott the Pier in the Hope it Fails Again
I never expected my investment to make a return. It was enough to be part of a community effort to save a historic artifact. There was the added bonus that as the regeneration took place I felt a sense of…
Campaign Against Arms Trade
Tim Barton reports back from a public meeting on the UK’s arms exports. People from Hastings were given an insight into the arms industry when Wendy Horler of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) spoke at a public meeting on June…
U.S. and Them
Hold onto your jeans through the Levi levy trade war Last week the EU imposed tariffs on the US in retaliation for tariffs recently imposed by the US on long-standing allies around the globe, including Canada, Mexico, India, China and…
Britain’s Got Love Island (and Love Island’s Got Talent)
It’s essential that the content regime of any reality TV format involves the audience as stakeholders in a balanced public service broadcasting ecology. This is the creative imperative. Britain’s Got Talent invites entertainers to showcase their talent to a nation…
Upcoming Event – No to Trump, No to War
Donald Trump gets ready to visit the UK, and Hastings gets ready to greet him by holding a ‘No to Trump’ meeting: Thursday 5th July, , Central Hall, Hastings, with speakers Amelia Womack - deputy leader of the Green Party,…
Choose Your Own Brexit
A book review by Andrew Everest ‘Can you Brexit?’ throws you the fantasy political football and lets you run with it. You are PM, the day after the referendum result. You are in the cockpit to navigate the turbulence inexorably…
Holidaying or Helping Abuse Human Rights?
Planning a Trip to Turkey or any of a dozen other countries? Kent Barker says read this before you go as you may be paying for more than you realise … Going somewhere nice this year? Plenty of sea and…
Abortion Reform for Ireland or just Eire?
Words and photomontage by Julia Andrews-Clifford May 25th 2018 was a hugely important day for Irish women – at least for those in the Republic. The referendum results were overwhelmingly in favour of YES - 3 out of 5 people…