Merlin Betts I read this and I immediately thought of the biblical Eve. I bet a lot of you did too. Eve, or an archetypal woman. I didn’t know that “All About Eve” also refers to a band, and that their name comes from a 1950s film, “All About Eve”, which is about women lecherously…
Andrew Myers If you were to inhabit the body of an insect while retaining all the vital aspects of human intellect and perception, and find yourself on one of the vertical surfaces of the present writer’s kitchen, while a dish involving fish or seafood is being prepared, or indeed during any activity, culinary or otherwise,…
Writing: Merlin Betts. Image: Archie Lauchlan. Walking the border of Gaza… well, a similar length anyway. The Stade to the De La Warr is about 9km, not far off the length of the Gaza Strip’s southern border with Egypt. Gaza’s longer border is 51km – that’s basically from here to Brighton. I made this the…
Gareth Stevens considers the winners and losers of gentrification Even though I have used both the terms DfL (Down from London) and OfB (Over from Brighton) from time to time … I try not to. Both labels are lazy, reductive and divisive. Whenever people use either term in a pejorative way, they redirect fire which…
Gareth Stevens “Without community, politics is dead. But communities have been scattered like dust in the wind. At work, at home, both practically and imaginatively, we are atomised.” George Monbiot What do we even mean by the word Community these days? What does it mean to be a Hastinger – and do you have to…
Merlin Betts Second night in the Piero Lounge. Now the confirmed refuge for any wary (or weary) stranger when dusk falls grey and harsh over Nuneaton – if that stranger is sober and needs to charge multiple electrical devices. Doubtful that it’ll last with so few covers on Friday and Saturday night, but the place…
Lizzie Beck I’m not from these parts. Neither am I DFL, AFB, EDL or WTF. I didn’t actually choose to come here either, I was moved here for reasons that if revealed would result in assassination (of whom I don’t know). It was nighttime when I first saw this town. From a hill above what…
This article is part of a series. Find the previous article here, and overview here. Photo by Vlad Ardeleanu on Unsplash. Do any of you remember the story of Hastings Castle… ? The prototype was made of wood when William the Bastard came over from Normandy in 1066 to do his part in creating England….