Posts by James Barnes
Refugee Week 2026: Mayor Garbett rebukes Labour’s ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ on migration
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
Read MoreHackney mayoral election 2026: meet the Reform UK party candidate Vahid Almasi
‘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’
Read MoreHackney mayoral election 2026: meet the Labour party candidate Caroline Woodley
‘I’m proud of all that Hackney stands for and am ambitious for all that we can achieve’, says Woodley
Read More‘The destruction of our livelihoods’ – Ridley Road Shopping Village traders to hold public meeting as ‘evictions’ loom
Traders told to leave by 31 March as their landlord has declined to renew their tenancies
Read MoreGreens on drugs – as extreme as it seems?
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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