Posts Tagged ‘Opinion’
Coronavirus: ‘It’s not just the health inequities of people of colour that should be up for debate’
The disproportionate number of Covid deaths among the BAME population ‘underscores the inescapable extent of inequality in modern Britain’, writes Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley
Read More‘Journalists of Hackney, unite!’ Reporter makes case for fair play by Town Hall
As campaign to highlight unfair competition by Town Hall freesheet gains momentum, rival hacks from the Citizen and Gazette speak with one voice
Read MoreLeader – Hackney Council’s gesture politics over betting shops
Town Hall asks Pickles for more power to restrict where bookies can open, but Labour itself opened the floodgates
Read MoreLeader – Mayor Pipe’s policy is Pickles’ dream
Does Hackney’s Labour leader see Tories’ council tax vote-winner as measure of his success?
Read MoreSainsbury’s N16 – If you build it they will come
Rab MacWilliam, former editor of N16 Magazine, gives his personal view
Read MoreLeader – Streets less uncaring at vigil for Miro Glaza
Reaction to death of homeless Polish man shows metropolis doesn’t have to feel alienating
Read MoreLeader – Pantomimes, Canalival and eerie Christmas calm…
A look back at Hackney in 2013 – a year of subcommittee deja vu
Read MoreChristmas shopping without the woes
Anne Tapsfield from Hackney Citizens Advice Bureau offers help with gift-buying headaches
Read MoreExpanding City Airport could cause Hackney residents sleepless nights
Sky high pollution levels a risk, argues Adrianna Threpsiadi from Hackney Friends of the Earth
Read MoreLeader – Why so scared of dissent?
There is a whiff of insecurity about Labour group’s eagerness to avoid criticism and tough questions
Read MoreHackney Citizens Advice Bureau offers top tips on university fees and accommodation
Don’t be caught out by co-tenants leaving with debts unpaid or agencies failing to return security deposits
Read MoreLeader – Save Lea Marshes’ suspicions well founded
Campaigners are right to be wary about Hackney Council’s car park claims
Read MoreLeader: talk is cheap
Do Hackney’s politicians always mean what they say?
Read MoreThe Localism Bill: more power to the people
A Conservative councillor considers what this legislation, currently making its way through Parliament, could mean for Hackney residents
Read MoreHackney Downs: everyone’s back yard
Stormont House students the deserve the best possible school, but ‘land-swap-loophole’ thinking by the powers-that-be is not part of the answer
Read MoreAs good as it gets
Is Hackney the future of Britain?
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