Green Yellows Or Yellow Greens?
On 1st July Paul Hunt and Nick Perry, of the local Liberal Democrat Party, extended an invitation to the local Green Party offering an electoral pact in next year’s local council elections. The invitation cited the Lib Dems’ willingness to…
The Hour Glass Runs On
Merlin Betts and Alan Bolwell explore the impact of Extinction Rebellion Reclaim public spaces, rewild your gardens, rebel against bureaucratic mismanagement. The climate rebels encompass all sorts, not just radical ecologists. Sedate middle-class patrons also break out the banners and…
Politikal Pokes By Lobbytroll
BORIS’S DEAD CAT Anyone for PM? Champion of the low-income obese Boris Johnson has been reduced, in the absence of any discernible policies which are not dog-whistle soundbites, to ridiculous non sequiturs and verbal wiff-waffle. The half-dead Tory members, it appears,…
Maya
An interview with Maya Evans, Hastings councillor, peace activist and the Council’s new ‘climate change champion’. What does the role of climate change champion involve? My portfolio title is climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development – it’s a thematic remit…
The Council Has Made A Commitment To Becoming Carbon Neutral By 2030. What next?
By Julia Hinton Back in February – thanks in part to pressure from the Hastings Green Party and our open letter calling on the council to declare a climate emergency – Hastings Council committed to making our town carbon neutral…
Lift The Ban!
Campaigners in Hastings and St Leonards call on the Government to allow people seeking asylum in the UK the right to work. Politicians, campaigners, celebrities and members of the public will gather on Saturday, 15th June to call on the…
Continental Drift
Divisions over Britain leaving the EU have led to increasingly polarised positions. This in turn has led to a hyper-analysis of small, incomplete, context-laden data sets which are extrapolated beyond their relevance and context in order to support a conviction…
A Rather Different D-Day
Many of the troops involved in the Normandy landings arrived after D-Day itself. Among them was Sergeant FELIX BARKER of the Balmorals – an entertainment troupe of the 51st Highland Division. His parents in Benenden, Kent anxiously awaited news of…
Rewilding To Avert Catastrophe?
Richard Price argues politicians are criminally negligent in ignoring climate change. Doom is coming to the world. No, I don’t think that’s too strong. I sincerely worry for the future generations and want to figure out why no one seems…
Rise Of The Independents
Proportional Representation (PR) is generally reckoned to aid smaller parties independent of the mainstream. Hence the extraordinary success of the Brexit and Green parties in last week’s European poll conducted, in the UK, on the D’Hondt PR system. However this…