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Brightoniana: Some links I've enjoyed

Brightoniana: Some links I’ve enjoyed

The Argus is the first for news. I particularly enjoyed this picture of the Mayor last week. What IS he doing? How to be a Retronaut is a superb compendium of old snaps and views. It's required reading in my personal blogosphere. Last week The Retronaut people published some really rather ... Read more »
Labour can win Brighton Pavilion

Labour can win Brighton Pavilion

The Argus has published a poll that puts Labour in the lead in Brighton Pavilion. Labour: 26% Conservative: 16% Green: 12% Link to the clipping. The Green’s Jason Kitcat has rubbished the poll and spent a great deal of bloggage slagging off the use of graphs by every party but the ... Read more »
Political ‘crowdsourcing’: must the ‘crowd’ always be the ‘usual suspects’?

Political ‘crowdsourcing’: must the ‘crowd’ always be the ‘usual suspects’?

The Brighton Argus has embarked upon an interesting social media ‘crowdsourcing’ experiment. Voters in the hyper-marginal Brighton Pavilion parliamentary constituency are invited to report their encounters with party candidates via Google Maps. The idea sprang from the Brighton Future of ... Read more »
The Argus and Booze Brighton: Some thoughts

The Argus and Booze Brighton: Some thoughts

Last week the Argus ran a front page piece about the number of places in town that sell alcohol: “Booze Brighton has one bar for every 84 households” I think The Argus missed the point. This is a resort city with two universities and that, combined with a native population that I venture ... Read more »
Brighton's Tory 'Winter of Discontent' starts here

Brighton’s Tory ‘Winter of Discontent’ starts here

I suspect my growing interest in Brighton and Hove's local politics will mean that this isn't the first blog I write about bins, refuse collection and recycling. So here you go: two of the communal bins on my street.  Pics taken half an hour ago. Why is this bad? This is the backlog of just ... Read more »
From White Night: Future News

From White Night: Future News

We're very lucky in Brighton because some sort of happening is usually happening somewhere. And last Saturday we saw the second annual White Night shindig. Basically, it's an all night arty thing to coincide with the clocks going back. Centred on Jubilee Square, there was music, drama and all kinds ... Read more »
Brighton Scenes #8

Brighton Scenes #8

Overheard. Two slightly eccentric gents order a round of drinks at the bar of a Brighton boozer not far from the station. Their change includes a five pound note. Vladimir: That’s the second one today. Estragon: What? V: (triumphantly) A fiver! E: (very seriously) They’re like gold ... Read more »
Twitter Politics: Broadcast or Conversation?

Twitter Politics: Broadcast or Conversation?

Jason Kitcat is a Green councillor on Brighton and Hove city council. It’s probably worth noting that I didn’t vote for him: I’m a member of the Labour party. That said, he has responded to my communications regarding recycling when I’ve sent them. For the record, I found his replies to my ... Read more »
Snow in Brighton

Snow in Brighton

Some pictures taken last night, at about ... Read more »
Brighton Scenes #6

Brighton Scenes #6

Overheard in the pub: First Man: Seen that Andrew Lloyd-Webber programme with Graham Norton? Second Man: The Eurovision one? Yeah. Bollocks innit. First Man: Nah. I reckon Lloyd-Webber's the man. He knows his stuff. He might win it for us. Second Man: Win it? All block-voting these ... Read more »
The Beauty of Sussex is Underrated

The Beauty of Sussex is Underrated

We don't have the wilds of Scotland, the wilderness of the moors in Devon or Yorkshire, Northern Ireland's moody mountains or deserted beaches like Wales. No brooding hills as you see near Malvern or Manchester. We lack the drama of the Lakes, the chocolate box rolls of the Cotswolds and Dorset. We ... Read more »
A year in Brighton

A year in Brighton

Can it be a year already? Well, it isn't really, but a year ago today I signed the papers and took a flat in my hometown of Brighton and even though I didn't completely relocate until after Christmas, it's pretty much one whole year. Wow. No regrets. I can hardly imagine moving back to the smoke ... Read more »
Brighton Scenes #5

Brighton Scenes #5

Overheard. Two men and a woman in a pub: both fancy their chances with her. There has been much flirtation and a bit of bawdiness. Woman: So you're a plumber. Man 1: He's a heating engineer, there is a different. Woman: (Chastened) Oh. How's business? Man 2: Shit. Man 1: He's going to become ... Read more »
Brighton Scenes #1*

Brighton Scenes #1*

St James's Street. On my way home. About 11pm. A tall transvestite in a ginger wig with a thick belt round a long jumper is strutting along. She looks like Donna Noble. A group of three twittering, bickering discobunny gay lads are walking the other way, towards her. One of them spots her and ... Read more »