‘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...
View ArticleNimbyism 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...
View ArticleHackney 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHackney 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...
View ArticleWhite 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,...
View ArticleSorry 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...
View ArticleI 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....
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticlePolice 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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