That’s your lot then, from a week in which the temperature suddenly dropped to true autumnal levels, quickly denuding the trees of the leaves they were wearing unfashionably late into the season; a signal, perhaps, for the supermarkets to erect their Christmas decorations, and everybody to moan ‘but it’s still bloody November’. And a week in which a key Tory adviser announced that Lewes’ Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee’s liberal ideas should shape the Conservative’s welfare state policy, rather than those of Winston Churchill. We’d like to thank the following people this week, without whom this issue would not have been possible: Ness Newman, Robert Shepherd, Vic Smith, Steve Haywood, Ursula Mummens, Chris Lewis, Mike Lance, Theo Walcott, Irene Marot, Dawn Stacey, David Stacey, Paul Austin Kelly, Jacquie Young, Rod Kedward, Marylin Thomas and Pete Withers.

Contributors this week are: Esther McMahon (our new folk editor), Emma Robertson, Emma Chaplin, Will Leith, Antonia Gabassi, Dexter Lee, Steve King, Scott Chowen, Nick Williams, Dave Wilson, Katie Moorman and Alex Leith.

Next week’s highlights include:
Friday 1st December: The Film Club present ‘Pierrepoint’ at the All Saints Centre (right)
Saturday 2nd: The Farmers Market its town
Saturday 2nd: Christmas Show at the HQ Gallery
Sunday 3rd: Fred Eaglesmith, Canadian songsmith, at the Anchor, Barcombe