Opinion
A licence to print money?
How the Hackney Pound could help local shops, businesses and the community
Read MoreEconomical truths
Ben Locker talks about the recession from a Hackney perspective
Read MoreNo critics please, this is Hackney
“Publish and be damned!” (Duke of Wellington, c.1825): dissenting voices are vital to democracy
Read MoreCome take my hand
As Ben Locker puts his Stamford Hill home up for sale, he looks back on a ten-year love affair with his patch of East London
Read MoreGentrification – a neighbourhood ‘grey area’?
Clearly there are winners and losers in a changing neighbourhood, but what can be done to ensure we end up with the kind of community we want to live in?
Read MoreWhose green? Whose turf? Whose space?
Another visit to Butterfield Green
Read MoreThe goy next door
What’s it like for an outsider to live alongside Stamford Hill’s Orthodox Jewish community, ‘the square mile of piety’? Ben Locker and ‘The Shaigetz’ swap perspectives and wonder whether they might be the best of neighbours.
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