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…
Council’s Climate Pledges One Year On
By Julia Hilton On 13th February 2019 – exactly a year ago – Hastings Borough Council (HBC) passed a climate change motion, pledging to limit its own use of fossil carbon, encourage others to do the same, and set a…
A Billion Ways – the Musical about Climate Change – to be Premiered in Hastings.
Press Release provided by the brand new musical on climate change will open in Hastings this month at the Kino-Teatr, featuring an impressive cast of local talent. Script writer Sally Holloway says she wanted to write a “feel-good” musical about…
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…
XR REBELLION Something To Tell The Grandchildren
Marnie Johnson tells Hugh Sullivan how and why she was arrested I feel that climate change is an emergency, a crisis. We don’t have much time to turn things around. Even in the West we are seeing the effects; elsewhere…
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…
Labour Roots
HIP’s political editor, Alan Bolwell, reports from a Labour Party drive in the key marginal of Hastings and Rye East Sussex College, Hastings played host to a local Labour Roots Rally last Saturday as the party starts to mobilise its…
Bookbuster Book Review
The Coming Silent Seasons?Part Three: Visible and Invisible PlasticsTurning the Tide on PlasticsBy Lucy SiegleTrapeze Books, £ by Tim Barton Since the 1950s consumer boom plastics have encased and comprised more and more and more of our goods. But, to…
Why I’ve Just Joined Extinction Rebellion
By Rod Webb Most people know how we put off what is really important in life, like spending more time with our friends and family, because we are too busy just getting on with it. And some of us have…
Fridge Parfait: How To Save The World By Reducing Household Waste
By Kathryn Vale It all started in 2014 with spontaneous group lunches that became part of weekday life in the building project that was our new home. All the builders came indoors for a ‘project meeting’ at lunchtime with their…