Tag archives for Jeremy Corbyn
Anti-Semitic Slurs Killed Corbynism
LEAH LEVANE I am really pleased that Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt is coming to Hastings on 25 June to talk about her amazing book about the years when Jeremy Corbyn was leader…
Corbyn Rallies Hastings – Again
KENT BARKER Jeremy Corbyn seems to like Hastings. Last week (18 October) he chose the drab-looking Horntye Sports Centre off Bohemia Road to launch – or perhaps re-launch - the…
Hastings Welcomes Your Party
Just days after the damaging bust-up between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, the newly formed ‘Your Party’ hosted a public meeting at St John’s Hall on Brittany Road last Tuesday…
New Party, Familiar Faces
JAMES PRENTICE Maya Evans is back in town telling several people she has been hired by Jeremy Corbyn as campaign organiser for his new political party. Dave YoungMaya Evans The…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW: Weaponising Anti-Semitism
By Asa WinstanleyPublished by O/R Books, 2023 rrp £15REVIEW BY GILL KNIGHT In this book, Asa Winstanley takes the reader on a meticulously researched 7-year journey to demonstrate how accusations…
May Day Mayday – Public Services in Crisis
PAUL McLAUGHLIN Jeremy Corbyn, the MP for Islington North, was guest of honour at the annual Hastings May Day Workers’ Day March last Saturday (29 April). Several hundred marchers set…
The Importance of Independent Local Journalism
Journalism has come under the spotlight over the last few years, particularly the lack of reliable sources of information in the corporate media. More recently the spotlight has been on…
Antisemitism: Local and national
On 21st October Hastings Borough Council adopted the working definition of antisemitism developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The working definition comes with eleven examples that are intended…
Coronavirus: The Lessons For Climate Change Policy
By Maya Evans In a week when the Coronavirus crisis sent millions into isolation in their homes, and the NHS was braced for an influx of patients, Planet Earth sent…
Jews And Anti-Semites In Hastings The Peculiar World Of Dany Louise
In February this year Old Town ward councillor Dany Louise resigned from the Hastings Labour party citing failure of its national leadership to deal with anti-semitism within its ranks. In…
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…
Trust The People
There was a noticeable silence at the anti-Brexit march in Brighton over the Labour Party’s conference weekend. All the commotion was at the front headed by prominent Remain supporting MPs,…
The Great Dictator
On the 28th of August, Boris Johnson announced his intention to prorogue parliament from the 9th September until the 14th October, shortly after parliament was due to resume from summer…
The Green Transformation
By Josie Demuth The Labour Party is driving forward a set of environmental policies that link social issues like housing, jobs and transport into a large array of progressive green…
Corbyn Conquers Hastings
By Kent Barker, Political Editor HIPSome of those lined up outside St Mary in The Castle waiting for Jeremy Corbyn were wondering why he was in Hastings and not Downing…
Jeremy the Mystery Cat
Kent Barker – with apologies to TS Eliot Jeremy’s a mystery cat: He’s called the hidden claw For he’s the master politician who seems to defy the law He’s the…
Please do Better, Jeremy
Dave Young argues that while the Labour Leader seems to be hanging himself over the anti-Semitism row, someone else is providing the rope I tend to prefer cock-up to conspiracy…
Anti-semitism on the Left
On 26th March, 1,500 protestors joined together in Parliament Square in a march called by the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) and the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) in…
Bombing in the Middle-East
Abraham West News that the UK was involved in a bombing mission in Syria was announced by Donald Trump at a press conference and shared on Twitter at on Saturday…
With apologies to Michael Foster
By Alan Bolwell A couple of months ago I made the mistake of accusing the wrong Michael Foster of bizzare and offensive ramblings. I was sent an article by a…
“Welcome to the Jeremy Corbyn fanclub”
by Alan Bolwell On Monday 25th January around 50 Hastonians gathered in The Jenny Lind to express their interest in Momentum, a National group that has set up a Hastings…