To treat naked artist Poppy Jackson as a joke is to dismiss something powerful
Straddling the roof of Toynbee Hall, Jackson’s performance at Spill festival was a daring piece of experimental art. So why did most media reports reduce it to the lowest common denominator?
Read MoreLondon Fields residents clash over car-cutting measures
Rival petitions launched after council announces plans to block off roads to through-traffic
Read MoreSarai: stage review – Old Testament drama proves power of the scriptures
One woman show at Dalston’s Arcola Theatre is a tour de force
Read MoreReflections on Mirrors festival: stellar venues and sounds
Big names and lesser known acts wreaked musical havoc at the first ever Mirrors festival in Hackney this weekend
Read MoreNew play Lines looks at how peace is 'just a gap between wars'
Four soldiers struggle to adapt to not being at war in the latest production at the Yard Theatre
Read MoreLeader – No sense in handcuffing dying prisoners
The treatment of Sabri Karatas echoes several cases where the authorities have shown a lack of common sense and decency
Read MoreDying prisoner Sabri Karatas granted compassionate release
Sabri Karatas’s brother criticises Ministry of Justice for delay in decision
Read MoreSadness over closure of Bliss Café as gentri-fried breakfasts order of the day
Regulars express sadness over the closure of Dalston Lane’s ‘haven for old timers’ after 15 years of trading
Read MoreFamily of prisoner dying in Hackney hospice beg for his release
‘He might be a criminal but he is still a human,’ says brother of Sabri Karatas who has days left to live
Read MoreMayor ‘deeply shocked’ at plans to close the Cass
Petition gathers momentum against relocating art school, described as the ‘Aldgate Bauhaus’, out of East London
Read MoreMayor 'deeply shocked' at plans to close the Cass
Petition gathers momentum against relocating art school, described as the ‘Aldgate Bauhaus’, out of East London
Read MoreCancellation of witchcraft play is ‘akin to censorship’
Girls’ school pulls plug on touring play citing explicit references to child abuse
Read MoreCancellation of witchcraft play is 'akin to censorship'
Girls’ school pulls plug on touring play citing explicit references to child abuse
Read MoreFringe! festival returns with special emphasis on Brazil
East London’s queer film and arts festival returns with a bumper programme of work from across the globe
Read MoreOffice politics: Town Hall to raise cash by renting out Keltan House
Mare Street building could be turned into bar as ‘continued austerity measures’ pushes council into leasing assets
Read MoreColvestone Primary School: developers deny daylight report is ‘misleading’
Independent report raises overshadowing concerns for nursery playground but developers insist tests were thorough
Read MoreTheatre’s green dream boosted by cash for carbon-neutral heating
Dalston’s Arcola Theatre has won £12,500 funding to install a new heating system after hundreds voted for the proposal online
Read More‘Time has come’ for a Hitchcock museum in Leytonstone
Moves are afoot to find a permanent site in East London to celebrate the ‘master of suspense’
Read More'Time has come' for a Hitchcock museum in Leytonstone
Moves are afoot to find a permanent site in East London to celebrate the ‘master of suspense’
Read MoreFamilies face monthly rent shortfall of £783 after benefit freeze, warns charity
Shelter report warns of Hackney ‘blackspot’ over government plans to freeze housing benefit until 2020
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