By Remi on 31/03/2021
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Crime, FYI, What The Fook

It appears the British Justice system believes, white women rights supersede that of Black women’s. Our basic human rights, even our mental health. Knowing this, there are some white women like Amanda Straughan who will take full advantage of their white privilege. They do so by weaponising their white girls tears against Black women like […]
By Remi on 01/06/2020
Crime, FYI

His life was snuffed out as casually as you step on a cockroach. I don’t think Minnesota has the death penalty, but it’s my hope some righteous brothers, will get former police officer Derek Chauvin and snuff him out. I hope he suffers the same pain George Floyd did. I can trust my […]
By Remi on 31/05/2020
Amanda Jane Straughan, Amanda Straughan, anna edwards Homerton, anna marie edwards
FYI, What The Fook
A poem from one of my shero’s – Maya Angelou. I post this specifically for the haters who are threatened and despise me for my sass. You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness […]
By Remi on 09/02/2015
clapton common, Haredi, If You Tickle Us, jewish, Orthodox, Remi Mainde, stamford hill
FYI

I have to admit one of my biggest and time-consuming guilty pleasures is Twitter, where I have several accounts. There is Hackney Hive, my business account, my personal one and my favorite most used one which can be in-politically correct, many times crossing the boundaries of decency and even straying into problems with the law […]
By Remi on 08/02/2015
Business Hair Salon, Costello Cheese, dalston, Matt Day, pop ups, Remi Makinde, Ron Foley
Food & Drink, FYI

This is not going to be your usual preview of an eatery or hairdressers, so please hair hear me out as this is of local, social, cultural and historical importance. Last week I read a preview of a new pop up in Hackney and being a little long in the tooth, I don’t get […]
By Amy Victoria Gray on 11/07/2013
FYI

The Hackney Colliery Band have been urging their fans to unexpect the expected from the beginning. Yes, they are a brass band. No, you probably won’t hear them play Morning Has Broken. The Hackney Colliery Band have all the right ingredients – they have just mixed them up and produced something other than your usual […]
By Amy Victoria Gray on 05/04/2013
FYI

A couple of years ago gyms were flooded with women who had oozed into their neon Lycra for the specific purpose of shaking their extremities around to pumping Latin music. Rewind a couple of years before that, and women were queuing up to flail around on a pole in high heels and gym shorts. […]
By Amy Victoria Gray on 15/03/2013
Books, FYI

Looking for something a little out of the ordinary in London this weekend? You’ve probably been to half the pop ups going, lounged in most of the clandestine speakeasies and bat off Secret Cinema as old news. Where to, then, for a night out far removed from the usual? Open mic nights are ten-a-penny; stand-up […]