Category: Hastings
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How do you salve a guilty conscience?
Well, one way is to point attention away from yourself – spread the guilt around as far as you can. This weekend saw protests like these all over the UK – five of our own in Hastings were arrested. Our local activists have been on pretty friendly terms with Hastings police, especially those who have…
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Pirates ahoy!
A cry central to the history and spirit of Hastings — I wonder if an understanding of that will outlast the determination of commercial developers to fill the town with those who can afford affordable (and even unaffordable) housing. The Stade and all who sail in her It’s a favourite twist in Hastings history, the…
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I’ve never been to a protestival before
It’s fun! This one was everything that traditionally happens at a summer weekend gathering by the sea, but with real, community-level politics. If you walk along to the west end of Hastings seafront, you come to a pleasant, green space but with signs of the demolition of the former bathing pool, now ingeniously turned into…
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Please don’t wait for Jeremy
Apart from anything else, I have a feeling it’s the last thing he wants you to do. If he’s learned the same lessons I have from being involved with the assemblies movement, he’ll be hoping like hell that you’re just getting on with it, your way. We really, seriously do need that thing everyone’s been…
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Nae King II
Nae King I was my response to the penultimate devolution/re-structuring consultation in Hastings. You can read about that here… I went to HBC’s final one yesterday, and there were more people and more ideas than at the last but Nae King II is not a report on that meeting so much as a development of…
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What would you do?
When you carry the Homeland in your heart and travel the world with it, you become its ambassador wherever you go, telling its story, transporting its concerns and spreading its culture. – Amjad Rfaie If that sounds to you like the antidote to genocide, you’re thinking the way I am but Amjad has a more…
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Sweet little UXB
Why am I tempted to say ‘this is a sweet little book’? It’s no such thing and anyway, I don’t say things like that but I’m trying to figure out how Xiaolu Guo has cunningly disguised an unusual and important piece of work as a sweet little book. The rare and quiet determination of someone…
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The night something broke
How did we get here? yes, corruption, yes, attacks on Corbyn, yes, failures by Corbyn — and the theft of the Labour Party but most of those tragic conversations on the left are leaving something out. Something huge. Here’s a flashback… Standing in the foyer at the 2019 Labour Party Women’s Conference in Telford, talking…
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To our HBC councillors
Dear Councillor, if you’re reading this – I know you’re busy people. There’s a letter to you in the second half of the text. Feel free to scroll straight on down to the bit headed “Can we please re-discover that word “no”? Long-gone local authorities I remember when “the authorities” were in Wellington Square. If…
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Hastings connections
(Hastings loves fireworks) Hastings, UK, has twin town relationships with Béthune (France), Oudenaarde (Belgium), Dordrecht (The Netherlands), and Schwerte (Germany), and Hastings in Sierra Leone, West Africa. I think we’re twinned with the first three because councillors have friends or trade links there. I guess with the last one, it’s because of the name, although…
Kay Green 