Women are made to feel like a problem, feminist author Caitlin Moran told her audience at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival last weekend. The talk was the first memorial event in honour of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th century feminist writer who lived and worked in the area. Wollstonecraft argued in her…
Beginning to write a book was like having constipation, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh told an audience at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival this week. He said: “Writing a book is like doing a shit basically. First, you are constipated, then you get it out and think: ‘Thanks God for that!’…
The quirky name Olive Loves Alfie is well known to London creative families with a taste for something different when it comes to their children’s clothes.…
In Shoreditch a monthly meeting called the Roundabout Kids has started to bring young entrepreneurs working in the the tech scene at the Silicon Roundabout together. Alex Nguyen and friend Vishal Ladwa thought it would be a good idea to have meetings for young professionals who want to start up…
A substantial drop in the number of high earners employed by Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Lewisham have been noted in a national survey of council employee remuneration by The Taxpayers’ Alliance. In 2011-12 Hackney Council reduced the number of employees earning more than £100,000 from 21 to 11. Tower Hamlets,…
A part-time DJ from Hackney, Natalie Coleman, inspired in the kitchen by her late grandmother, has won this year’s BBC’s MasterChef final. On national television the Judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace said she was “destined for great things.” She “not only understands finery of great food but… cooks for…
On Wednesday April 24, BBC Three’s Free Speech came to Goldsmiths to record the fourth episode in the second series of the programme on the subject of ‘Rent Britain’- the difficulties that young people face in being able to set up their own homes. Rents in London are increasing 8…
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The Metropolitan Police could be setting up help points in faith buildings such as churches and mosques, in an attempt to better engage with diverse faith communities across the capital. That was one of the suggestions discussed at a conference organised by Faiths Forum For London, a charity which works…
Today, Whitechapel is more famous for its arts and creativity than as the home of East End crime and violence. Some however, are still troubled by echoes of its notorious past. “Jack the Ripper took two of his victims from these streets,” says social entrepreneur Alastair Sloan, brightly. “Since then,…
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“Blood Stained Headlines– the Woolwich Murder
“Blood Stained Headlines– the Woolwich Murder and Multicultural Life” by Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths The deafening frequency of the sirens on Wednesday night was reminiscent of London after the 7th July bombings as the police cars and vans hurtled down the New Cross Road towards Woolwich. It is the soundtrack…
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