Opinion
Titbits — Handbags, prize gags and glow-in-the-dark posters
Doubts over whether the council’s ‘edgy’ signs are working, and will Mayor Pipe and Cllr Simche Steinberger ever patch things up?
Read MoreTitbits — Spin, festive faux pas and crafty brewery tours
Computer says ‘No’ to Town Hall light show, positive spin gets a whole new meaning and Diane Abbott’s brewery tour steers a careful path through Hackney
Read MoreLeader — If it is broke, do fix it
What are the implications of recent events in Tower Hamlets for Hackney’s executive mayoral model?
Read MoreTitbits — Secular snack tables, Boris bagels and graveyard gossip
Abney Park suffers hatchet job, Boris gets bagels named in his honour and ‘affordable’ micro-homes arrive in the borough
Read MoreTitbits — History lessons, mansion tax and no bangs for the bucks
A lecture by Edward Benyon proves history is indeed written by the victors as Hackney politicians bring the mansion tax spat closer to home
Read MoreLeader — Dog’s breakfast of a ‘resurrected’ campaign
Plot thickens over Head of Regeneration’s last-gasp call to arms as pow-wows on petition do not add up
Read MoreTitbits — Bromsgrove beckoning, Mayoral rumours and playing away
Exodus of talent as Islington gets riot play, Bromsgrove snatches Tom Ebbutt and rumours abound over Mayor Pipe’s next move
Read MoreLeader — Blurred lines
Head of Regeneration’s call to arms shows muddle at the top
Read MoreTitbits — Charity knit-picking, turfed out terrapins and hipster hassle
Mayor Pipe and Hackney Heroine have trendy tiff, government’s ‘Victorian’ stance on charities and predators finally purged from Clissold Park pond
Read MoreLeader — Children pay for Gove’s tinkering
Schools see mixed GCSE results amidst shifting goalposts
Read MoreLeader — the legacy of the 2011 riots
Three years on from the riots, are we preparing for more civil unrest?
Read MoreTitbits- Trash talk and historic horticulture
Scythes and a herd of cows replace tractors on Walthamstow Marshes but is the Council’s latest recycling initiative equally as primitive?
Read MoreLeader- knife crime debate cut
No debate held over new knife crime law as Town Hall submits hardline view to Parliament
Read MoreLeader – The winner takes it all under our unfair electoral system
Proportional representation would be a more sensible approach. After all, it works in Scandinavia
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
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