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 smallest room-sizes to be found anywhere in the western world, and prices so high that they exclude all but the very wealthy from buying a home [...]

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.  Actually he blogs daily in his London blog about London politics, doggedly keeping a close eye on Boris Johnson [...]

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. The North Hackney and Stoke Newington MPs latest gaff, has brought out the usual suspects, yet I will [...]

Employees at Hackney council have been telling callers that there is no Conservative candidate, standing for Mayor of Hackney in the coming elections, this according to the Hackney Citizen and Andrew Boff. The Conservative Mayoral candidates attention, was brought to this issue by ‘concerned residents’.  Only last month, Boff was told his election address would [...]

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 definitely not in Hackney. While it’s not uncommon for prospective MPs to eye constituencies far from their homes, Hackney Hive, most visitors to this site and I, [...]

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