Hastings Forum

It's sackcloth and ashes time! I maintained throughout the discussions that I took the photograph from the Fortune of War pub in Priory Road. Today, I posted the photo in the Historical Hastings Facebook group and again, there was disagreement about the viewpoint. It was argued that the photo was ta...

And it will get even worse with the emergence of AI and the Internet of Things. Everything and everyone Internet connected and vulnerable to cyber attack, or logically perfect, but morally wrong AI decisions. Who would believe it - do I sound like Cassandra?

No, seahermit, life wasn't always this complicated. If you wanted to communicate with someone, you wrote a letter, and a few days later you would receive a reply. If the communication was urgent, you would walk down the road to the nearest telephone box and politely contact a near neighbour of your ...

You would still have the same Internet connection problems with a tablet (assuming that you used the same service). Incidentally, I have a son-in-law on Sky broadband, and like you, he has frequent connection problems. Sky have checked everything and declared that it's BT's fault. BT claims that the...

You're correct Richard, there is no "well man" scheme, or project - I used the phrase for want of a better one to describe the check-up that I underwent. By far the biggest problem is the male attitude of invulnerability. Many men wilfully ignore adverse symptoms in the hope that they will...

I am a prostate cancer survivor. It was detected only because I decided to have a "well man" check-up at the age of sixty that included a PSA blood test. Fortunately, the cancer was in its early stages and was treated successfully. The treatment that I opted for, and everything that goes w...

This weekend sees the bi-annual change of time in the UK. Successive governments have pledged to look into the possibility of instigating all-year-round BST or GMT, or even “double summer time”, but the matter always gets “lost”. My guess for the lack of action is the fear of upsetting Scottish farm...

Intriguing - please keep us posted on progress. The lack of archaeology alone at the presumed site of the battle is enough to throw huge doubts on its "claim to fame".

I live in an area where there is a plethora of fast food takeaways and there are also double yellow lines, pedestrian crossings and a bus stop. Takeaway customers frequently park on the pavement, and often, there are several cars all lined-up with some of the cars wholly parked on the pavement, forc...

It's not good to be male sometimes!