Surreal Manifesto or What?
Perceptual and Conceptual Hastings artist Ba Kode declares his/her manifesto for a new Art movement: Pre-Post Surrealism Inspiration can strike when you least expect it. Though perhaps it should come as less of a surprise if it hits you while…
Postcards from St Leonards
By Teigh-Anne Toast Last Friday evening I went to an art exhibition on the seafront with my good friend, Crystalle de Canta. It was the opening night of a group show called ‘Fresh Wind’. Crystalle explained that a group show…
Imagining the Endtimes
By Nick Pelling What will be left when Boris’ travelling show finally falls over the inevitable cliff? There will surely come a moment, very soon, when Boris slides away - as the summer of discontent burns - to write his…
SATIE: Top Trumps
Boris, HIP’s spider-mole in Whitehall, recently recorded the following exchange at an office in Marsham Street and sent it to us to transcribe. Sir Humphrey: Welcome to the Home Office, ; I want you to take charge of Immigration Policy. Prendergast…
SATIRE
Diary of a Seaside Landlady By Teigh-Anne Toast Signore Benito Falabella arrived, tottering behind two enormous suitcases, fit for a princeling. His luggage contained more clothes than he had words of English. But, he managed to answer a couple of…
Importance of Being Arthur
By Nick Pelling How much does it matter what names we use? Evidently, quite a bit. Take the Royal Family for example. They are, of course, the Windsors. But actually, they just gave themselves that name because their actual name,Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,…
Springtime for Boris
The Downing Street Spider had leaked yet another anonymous diary entryto HIP. “With one bound he was free” … perhaps that has too much of the Dick Tracy and not enough of the Promethean about it! And when we speak…
Of Goats and Goebbels
By Nick Pelling When history turns bad, language itself has a tendency to shrivel up and become almost meaningless. The creature in the Kremlin tells us that there is no ‘war’ in Ukraine. It is merely a ‘special’ operation. The…
Feeling Priti and Witty and Bright
The Spider has leaked us a diary entry discovered in Whitehall a couple of weeks ago: Dear Diary, By the time anyone reads this I may no longer be Home Secretary. And that will be REALLY unfair! All I’ve done…
Beautiful Game – Ugly Times
By Nick Pelling One wonders how much the Russian führer will care that UEFA have taken the Champions League final away from his country. Or that even FIFA - formerly so deeply saturated in Russian money streams - has found…