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Posts by James Barnes

Refugee Week 2026: Mayor Garbett rebukes Labour’s ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ on migration

By James Barnes | Monday 15 June 2026 at 14:52
Photograph of Zoe Garbett

Hackney’s new Green mayor sets out her stall against the national government’s tightening immigration regime and pledges to build on the borough’s three-year Sanctuary designation

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Hackney mayoral election 2026: meet the Reform UK party candidate Vahid Almasi

By James Barnes | Wednesday 29 April 2026 at 16:51

‘I am coming from the real world, I may not understand the processes the way they do, but I am actually determined to make a change’

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Hackney mayoral election 2026: meet the Labour party candidate Caroline Woodley

By James Barnes | Thursday 23 April 2026 at 18:08
Caroline Woodley

‘I’m proud of all that Hackney stands for and am ambitious for all that we can achieve’, says Woodley

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‘The destruction of our livelihoods’ – Ridley Road Shopping Village traders to hold public meeting as ‘evictions’ loom

By James Barnes | Sunday 15 March 2026 at 09:12
Fatimata owner of Bedding Outlet at RRSV

Traders told to leave by 31 March as their landlord has declined to renew their tenancies

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Greens on drugs – as extreme as it seems?

By James Barnes | Thursday 5 March 2026 at 09:29
Green Party

Labour has condemned plans by the Green Party to decriminalise all drugs, but is the stance as radical as it appears?

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