James Barnes - Hackney Citizen

Faith schools could pick every pupil under Hackney plan, warns humanist charity

Humanists UK says a council proposal to move independent Charedi schools into the state sector would let them select every pupil by faith

By James Barnes

/ 6 Oct 2026

Faith schools could pick every pupil under Hackney plan, warns humanist charity

Judge 'not minded to remove' Hackney chief executive’s name from injunction in leaseholder contempt case

Both sides are now negotiating to settle the contempt application and disrepair claim

By James Barnes

/ 23 Sep 2026

Photograph of Dawn Carter McDonald, Hackney Council Chief Executive

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

By James Barnes

/ 15 Jun 2026

Hackney 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'

By James Barnes

/ 29 Apr 2026

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

Hackney 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

By James Barnes

/ 23 Apr 2026

'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

By James Barnes

/ 15 Mar 2026

Fatimata owner of Bedding Outlet at RRSV

Greens 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?

By James Barnes

/ 5 Mar 2026