Archive for Monday 8 June 2020
Susanna’s Manners
Our resident food historian on 17th-century childcare, from high chairs ‘built like battleships’ to ‘fearsome’ baby walkers
Read MoreFortnightly bin collections called in for further scrutiny by Hackney Conservatives
Waste chief slams ‘spurious’ challenge after Cllr Simche Steinberger accuses Town Hall of ‘wanting to save money’ and ‘singling out’ Jewish community
Read MoreTributes paid after death of former Hackney Labour councillor Steve Scott
Ex-colleagues say Scott, who was 92, was ‘committed to making life better for the people in his community’
Read MoreVictim named in fatal Hackney shooting as police call for information
Oluwamayowa Adeymi, 21, died from a gunshot wound to the chest on Brackenfield Close on 5 June
Read MoreCoriolanus, National Theatre Live on YouTube, stage review: ‘Famous actors, punchy action and political turmoil’
Despite an impressive cast, this production, which is available to watch right now, lacks ‘grandness’
Read MoreTamsin Ssembajjo Quigley: ‘The racist legacies of the past are woven into the fabric of our present’
The local writer on what is needed for meaningful change in Britain – a ‘wholesale shift in an economic system built on the enslavement and sale of human beings’
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