BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right By Terry Eagleton Published by Verso Books, 2022, paperback, rrp £,available at Bookbuster, 39 Queens Road Review by Tim Barton With our fundamentally undemocratic ‘first past the post’ system of allocating seats…
Food Matters
What does food mean to you? It could be one of the most important aspects of your daily life or it could be no more than an essential, biological, fuelling operation. But apart from a few ‘Breatharians’ who allegedly survive…
Ian Wood: Great Apes
Sussex-based photographer and writer, Ian Wood, presents a unique insight into some of the natural world’s most awe-inspiring inhabitants in his exhibition Great Apes (17th October - 17th December 2020) currently on show at The Lucy Bell Gallery in St…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
A Little Light:20 ways the coronavirus response could make the world better Edited by Tom Whipple et al. Published by Sphere, September 2020,hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton This ‘review’ is less about the book itself than it is…
Vanguard of a post-Covid retail landscape?
By Susan de Muth Not to be confused with the monthly Kings Road Street Market – which unfortunately has yet to emerge from the rubble of lockdown – St Leonards Makers’ Market is a monthly event, held at 48 Kings…
Hastings residents welcome refugees
By Jo Turner On Channel 4 News this week Sally-Ann Hart, MP for Hastings and Rye, was interviewed about her party’s policy on refugees and also her own personal poor record of behaviour online which brought about an investigation by…
COMMENT: It really is time for the UK government to declare a Climate Change Emergency
Richard Price asks why the government isn’t declaring a climate change emergency given the evidence building up of climate catastrophe. Why are the media under-reporting or even ignoring the climate catastrophe in the making? Scientists consistently underestimate the speed…
Covid-19 – The Known Unknowns
Kent Barker asks if UK’s East Sussex ‘patient-zero’ shifts the expected Coronavirus epidemic peak. And considers other confusing ; When should we expect the epidemic to peak? The government suggests not for several weeks, but other evidence points to the…
COMMENT: A Woman For All Seasons?
One wonders if, after politics, Amber Rudd might consider joining the Church and seeking a living in the parish of Bray? She’d be ideally suited to follow in the footsteps of her illustrious predecessor who contrived to bend his principles…
HASTINGS LITFEST NEWS
Annual lecture launched to honour Hastings writer Catherine CooksonBy Alison Steel Hastings Literary Festival has announced it is launching an annual Catherine Cookson Lecture to honour the best-selling writer who made Hastings her home for many years. The inaugural lecture,…