A MONTH AGO Hackney council alarmed readers of this news site with the disturbing pandemic revelation that 17,000 of the most at-risk residents —
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This man could be the messiah to launch art from the East End to a rave new world
BEYONCÉ, PJ HARVEY, Ridley Road Market, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dalston and, above all, the East End — Gus Casely-Hayford dropped enough names and voiced
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Ride-on row as free-speech fan complains to a Hackney man’s employer about cycling views peddled on Twitter
THE BRITISH PRESS has traditionally been a guardian of our liberties, especially freedom of speech. So it is surprising that a distinguished journalist has
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Selfish 17,000 threaten Freedom Day delay as Covid cases surge in Hackney among minority of refusers
* Update 210621: despite government promises that it would stick to what became known as Freedom Day, the latest stage in the schedule of
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Silence from officialdom over Hackney job only for ‘Black… and People of Colour’
OFFERING JOBS ONLY to people from under-represented groups is unlawful because it is discriminatory. So says the law. Yet that is what a Hackney
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Whiteout! How fake news wiped away some of Hackney’s finest street art
SOME OF THE FINEST ART SEEN on the streets of London has been wiped out by fake news. Hip-hop Raised Me, a striking collage
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They bestride Hackney’s swanky corridors of power. And they earn nothing less than £100k
* UPDATE 060721: Mark Carroll, of Essex County Council, has been appointed the new chief executive of Hackney, replacing Tim Shields, who has retired
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Hostile-environment policy has led ethnic minorities to disdain vax clinics, says Hackney MP
A HACKNEY HEALTH CENTRE shut its door early because not enough people turned up for Covid-19 vaccinations. The Cedar Practice’s John Scott Centre in Green
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Two thirds of Jewish ultra-orthodox have Covid, says study, as Stamford Hill struggles with virus
COVID-19 IS LIKELY TO HAVE infected two thirds of the UK’S ultra-Orthodox Jews, suggests a study commissioned by the community itself. The rate
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Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park
WHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been
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