COMMENT: True Religion?
Zenos Metevsky comments on fervour for the NHS in the streets of Hastings Bank holiday sunshine lights up the back streets of Hastings – silent, empty and lined with parked cars. The majority of windows have blinds down, I suppose…
The Scandal Of Private Testing
By Graham Pearcey The symptoms were pretty clear, and Doctor Google and I concluded that it was almost certainly giardia, a nasty little intestinal bug that makes its presence felt towards the lower end of the digestive tract. Most likely,…
COMMENT: Don’t Be A Vaccine Damage Denier
Kent Barker replies to the Comment in 7th April issue of HIP by Paul Barlow. The debate over vaccines and vaccination is already dangerously polarised and, sadly, Paul Barlow’s comment piece ‘Why Vaccination Matters’ in edition 149 of HIP does…
COMMENT: Banging The Drum…
In common with most people I applaud the bravery and professionalism of all our NHS workers, and not just during the current crisis. As a child of the early 1950s it’s no exaggeration to say I wouldn’t be here without…
COMMENT: Lockdown Liberation
A chance to change the way we live and work? Lockdown, with its sudden imposition of more free time for many of us, has spawned much frenzied advice on how to cope. Keep things the same at all costs, is…
COMMENT: Why Vaccination Matters
Former Hastings Councillor Paul Barlow explores the importance of vaccination. After the novelty of COVID-19 self-isolation wore off (about four days!) I started thinking about how we dealt with infections previously. In my East End school during the 1970s we…
Food For Thought
Needed More Than Ever In times of crisis, we find out what we are made of. I am often surprised at what comes out of me when the pressure is on – sometimes I impress myself, sometimes not so much.…
COMMENT: Not OK, Boomer
Poppy Prescott – Kicks Back I saw in issue 145 that Glenn’s been ‘kicking off’ again. In said column, community legend Glenn, 70, reminisces about the “so-called good old days” and writes on why he thinks the notion that his…
COMMENT
Extinction Rebellion Hastings and St. Leonards on Climate Change and Hastings Borough Council Ahead of the forthcoming Hastings Borough Council Strategy announcement on reducing carbon emissions, Extinction Rebellion Hastings and St. Leonards (XRHSL) is aware that, for many of us,…
An Editor’s Welcome
Voicing Thoughts on ‘Thoughts and Voices’ Thoughts and Voices is a new space in HIP subtitled ‘Comment and Opinion on Matters That Matter’ and designed to house, well, exactly this! We wanted to create an open space in which people…