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Alessandra of Surrey?

So Alessandra Williams a prospective independent parliamentary candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington, resides in leafy, stockbroker belt Reigate Surrey – nowhere close to East London and...

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Maybe it’s time Diane Abbott fesses up and shut her detractors up

I believe if Diane Abbott would just admit, that maybe some of the socialist ideology of her earlier years is no longer her creed, she would get a pass from even some of her most fervent detractors....

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White Middle class kids don’t get shot in Hackney

Well according to Journalist and blogger Dave Hill, they don’t. I wouldn’t call myself a big fan of Dave Hill, but I occasionally read some of what he has to say.  Hill writes for the Guardian....

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Puritanical borough of Hackney bans ‘sex’ establishments

“Earlier draconian proposals included that all ‘sex’ establishments to be located below ground level with entrances “away from main thoroughfare”, meaning anywhere but the high street it’s located on....

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Who’s kidding who over Stoke Newington’s Sainsbury’s proposal

If there is one thing trendy white urban middle classes (affectionately known as WUMC’s) in London like, it’s a good fight on their own turf when they feel threatened by big corporations or local...

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‘No Hackney High-rise’?.. So where is everyone going to live?

  Despite London’s status as a leading world capital our city has some very serious problems affecting its potential and that of its inhabitants - namely a chronic and dire housing shortage, the...

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Nimbyism gone wild in Homerton or hate group

Protesting against some big corporations or big developments coming to our neighborhood, is nothing new in Hackney and is understandable, but there is something about a Homerton groups tactics, that...

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Hackney Council Seizes African-Caribbean book store Centerprise

At a recent meeting with Centerprises Chief Executive, Emmanuel Amevor, I wasn’t kidding when I commented “if Hackney council was a lover, you’d have to sleep with one eye open”.  He roared with...

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The death of Operation Trident and the return of racist policing in London.

Lee Jasper a founding member of Operation Trident, writes here exclusively for Hackney Hive on the dismantling of the Met Police’s unit.   The Metropolitan Police Service Operation Trident, was born in...

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Hackney Heart: Gentrification, Narrow Way, social cleansing and lies

  Less than two months after Jane Egginton-McIntyre was handed the keys to the rent and council tax free shop on the Narrow Way, she jetted off to a luxury beach resort in Portugal. She made everyone...

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White supremacist Joshua Bonehill picked the wrong borough

  Almost 69 years after Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts were run out of the East End, following the Battle of Cable Street and clashes in Ridley Road Market in Dalston, a  baby faced boy from Yeovil,...

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Sorry to disappoint you but there wasn’t a riot in Manor House last night

The thing about police tip offs, is that they are confidential, so we will never know if the police were really tipped off, or if the presence of a large group of young Black people congregated was...

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I fought racism and misogyny to become an MP. The fight is getting harder

In 30 years I’ve never complained about abuse. I’m speaking out now because I fear the politics of personal destruction is silencing minorities The post I fought racism and misogyny to become an MP....

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What Diane Abbott Did Next

Unlike some of her white female colleagues and other “feminists” who have gone all out to make martyrs of themselves, based on the online abuse they receive, Ms. Abbott has been silent for decades...

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Police Will No Longer Prevent Suspects From Swallowing Packages of Drugs

It was the closest I’d ever come to watching a snuff movie. Viewing CCTV footage of a Hackney Police officer and a member of the public allowing a 20 year old Black man, to die on the floor of a shabby...

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