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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Busy… Hastings Litfest, Coastal Currents…. and taking to the streets

What a busy week. Last weekend was the Hastings Litfest – its second year. Battleaxe took in several events and took part on a poetry reading.  Also, it was the start of the Coastal Currents…

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Surviving in a time of political melt-down…

Surviving? Can Battleaxe do anything apart from surviving in a time of political melt-down? Well, not much apart from a few small things, and this post lists them. But maybe I should forget politics and…

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Who’d be British today? Brexit storm…

Well, the weather has been extra-stormy, but for anyone who has been hibernating for the past few months, today the political situation is worse than ever. We are at the mid-point of a series of…

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Hastings Battleaxe doesn’t see Jeremy Corbyn…

Yes, I know it was over a week ago but people keep asking ‘why didn’t you write about going to see Jeremy Corbyn in Hastings’. Well, simple, because I never actually saw him.  Now, get…

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