Showing posts with label Sussex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sussex. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

GUEST POST In praise of outgrounds: How cricket in small towns made a roaring comeback

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The Hundred may be struggling for spectators, but cricket's One-Day Cup is thriving by using grounds that do not usually see professiona...
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Saturday, August 01, 2026

Under the Influence? A new report on alcohol at Westminster

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When the newly elected Hannah Spencer  – the Green victor in this year's Gorton and Denton by-election – voiced her shock at the role al...
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Monday, June 15, 2026

Violent Bonham Carter features on Fake or Fortune?

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The notorious gender-fluid London gang boss of the Sixties gets a mention in a post from last year on the Herstmonceux Castle website. BBC’...
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1502

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"As need has grown and reform and resources have stalled, 1.9 million people in England alone provided a 'full-time' (defined a...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

How Harold Godwinson got to the Battle of Hastings and all that

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What if historians have got one of the most crucial assumptions about one of England’s most pivotal battles completely wrong? asked the Guar...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The Joy of Six 1490

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"Our reviewers found that the guests or 'experts' are predominantly drawn from a pool of right wing commentators, politicians, ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

"Fight for the soul of our country": Josh Barbarinde profiled in the New Statesman

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During his successful campaign for the Liberal Democrat presidency, Josh Barbarinde's supporters emphasised his unparalleled ability to ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Badgers Blamed for Nuns’ Exhumation

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Thanks to a nomination from a reader, the Hastings Independent wins our coveted Headline of the Day Award.
Thursday, October 02, 2025

John Rogers discovers the lost city of Winchelsea

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This is a lovely walk – I've done the stretch from Rye to Camber Castle myself.  John's blurb on YouTube says: This walk takes on a ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The Joy of Six 1401

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Natasha Lindstaedt on the new 'iron curtain' being built across Europe: "Every European nation bordering Russia and its ally B...
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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Thomas Hardy and Richard Jefferies on steam threshing machines

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Having blogged about the explosion that killed four men at Stonton Wyville, and then about the dangers posed by the boilers that powered s...
Saturday, June 07, 2025

Former vicar linked to ‘Eunuch Maker’ castration cult admits back-street surgery

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Crossing our legs, we congratulate the Telegraph on winning our Headline of the Day Award. Thanks, I think, go to the reader who nominated ...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

In praise of Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet

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OK, he's cheesy and the colours are very early-Seventies. But it seems to me that Graham Kerr is rarely given the place he deserves in ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The Joy of Six 1353

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Andrew Page draws some lessons from Mark Carney's victory: "What we saw in Canada is that, when political leaders focus on the iss...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

If Enid Blyton was the Beatles then Malcolm Saville was the Kinks

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Now here's a title for a blog post:  The Famous Five vs The Lone Pine Club . It's on the blog Unpopular Culture. I shall resist the ...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

A Puffin Books profile of Joan Aiken

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On holiday in Shropshire last summer, I picked up a secondhand copy of Joan Aiken's The Cuckoo Tree and was reminded how enjoyable her c...
Thursday, March 06, 2025

Two Labour members thrown out for backing a tactical Lib Dem vote in Lewes

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In what Mark Perryman on Labour Hub calls "a sorry tale of hypocrisy and snitching", two members of Labour's constituency par...
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Sunday, January 26, 2025

The Joy of Six 1317

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"Regulation is one of those words used by politicians that is nearly always bad in the abstract and good in the specific. They rail aga...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

The Joy of Six 1299

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Arthur Snell explains why Assad was so violent: "The implications of a small, historically marginal and theologically unorthodox group...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust given 20 hectare site near Market Harborough as a memorial

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A 20 hectare site near Market Harborough has been donated to the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust in memory of James Adler, the chi...