Living on the margins with Hastings Battleaxe

Battleaxe is just beginning life on the margins, firstly as a European, but also as part of an endangered minority – a member of the soft left/Centre whatever you call it thse days, and as…

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Our last days in the EU – some good, some less so…

We are now in our last week before we leave the EU… I won’t go on about it, but it hovers at the edge of my consciousness like a nasty floater in the eye. Life…

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Hastings Battleaxe has a clear-out…

Yes, as I mentioned in my New Year’s post, 2020 is going to be the year that Hastings Battleaxe and Philosopher have a clear-out. It has already started…. Why, oh why, you may ask.  Well,…

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Watts Gallery and Artist’s Village – Hastings Battleaxe recommends

Yesterday we went on a post-Christmas outing to the Watts Gallery and Artists Village in Compton, near Guildford. Quite a long drive from Hastings, but the M25 behaved itself for once, the rain held off,…

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Blogoversary, New Year, new decade….

Hastings Battleaxe will be nine years old this December 31. I don’t know if that sounds sad, or, on the other hand, impressive… I hope the latter. I don’t think many blogs last as long…

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