Whitstable Views

13/12/2025

by Ian Jasper I returned from the Your Party (YP) founding conference after attending only one day, due to the onset of a heavy cold, the sort which addles your cognitive abilities for a week or so…

06/12/2025

CJ Stone catches up with a book club who have been reading together for the past 40 years

06/12/2025

My latest for the Whitstable Whistler, about the road protest in the 90s that divided the town, and the re-release of my first book, Fierce Dancing:

Whitstable Whistler Winter 2025

30/11/2025

Housing Benefit Hill stories first appeared in the Guardian Weekend starting September 11 1993. The final story appeared September 7th 1996. They were collected together, along with stories from a number of other sources, in my book, Housing Benefit Hill & Other Places. Here's a selection from my website, with illustrations and explanations.

Housing Benefit Hill stories first appeared in the Guardian Weekend starting September 11 1993. The final story appeared September 7th 1996.

28/11/2025

Accommodationally challenged after an unsuccessful foreign trip in 2007, CJ Stone was forced to take refuge with his parents. It was the first time he’d lived with them since his teens, and he was surprised to find himself in a war zone

Accommodationally challenged after a disastrous foreign trip in 2007, CJ Stone was forced to take refuge with his parents.

13/11/2025

Friday 21 November 6.00pm onwards

11/11/2025

A brilliant piece by Anthony Rix, about Whitstable's recent confrontation with the flag-shaggers, told in the form of a fable. A story about how symbols can be stolen, and how a community remembers what they truly stand for.

A modern fable for uneasy times

10/11/2025

A magical ritual in the City of London

24/09/2025

There was something profound and archaic at its heart. It seemed to evoke feelings and ideas that came from a very deep place. It was tribal. It was animistic. It was archetypal.

New version now available

21/09/2025

This is classic PSYOPS territory, using psychological weapons to undermine the enemy in a war zone; except that in this case the enemy is us, the public, and the war zone is “the province of the mind”: our perception and understanding of reality itself.

Into the conspiracy underground. || Christopher James Stone

16/09/2025

Make friends with your unconscious. || Christopher James Stone

13/09/2025

The Banshees of Inisherin and the trickster myth. || Christopher James Stone