Hackney’s Patrick Vernon dedicates his National Campaigner Award to Windrush survivors
The activist and former councillor has set his sights on the government’s new Windrush compensation scheme after winning a long-term achievement gong last month
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Backlash as Hackney North Labour passes motion rejecting claims of ‘institutional racism’
Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy calls on Labour’s executive committee to investigate Diane Abbott’s local party
Diane Abbott’s constituency Labour Party backs her in BBC ‘media bias’ row
Hackney North Labour releases statement supporting the MP following her Question Time appearance earlier this month
Titbits – Fuelling splits and political mis-hits
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’: Urswick head on how the school provides free meals for all
Richard Brown responds to campaign to stop children in Hackney being denied food due to their parents’ immigration status, saying the school has funded meals for all its students for years
Hackney children ‘going hungry at lunchtime’ due to parents’ immigration status
Diane Abbott & Mayor of Hackney pledge support for campaign to secure free school meals for undocumented children
Brexit: Pro-EU youngsters single out Diane Abbott in ad van stand
Our Future, Our Choice campaigners unveil posters urging Labour frontbenchers to back a ‘people’s vote’
Former Hackney councillor renews call for national Windrush Day
Patrick Vernon urges government to make 22 June an annual ‘celebration of migrants’
Leader – ‘Real’ politics
Labour’s language of moral censure in the aftermath of the elections is worrying
Diane Abbott says UK can learn from Scotland’s ‘public health approach’ to knife crime
Shadow home secretary says stop and search has ‘poisoned relationship between police and communities’
Hackney Council to install sprinklers in 114 homes at Haggerston tower block
Queensbridge Road property is first in borough to get sprinklers since the Grenfell fire – due to the high average age of residents
Hackney MP Diane Abbott slammed over ‘disingenuous’ Brexit promise
Shadow Home Secretary rows back on pledge to argue for ‘electorate to get a vote on final deal’
Diane Abbott suffers most abuse of all female MPs, ethics watchdog finds
Parliamentary committee calls on government to shift liability for illegal content on to social media companies
Raising Hackney: Diane Abbott and Mayor Glanville celebrate Northwold Estate community centre
The community centre is celebrating a new name and the involvement of a new charity
Jihadi John-linked speaker dropped from Stand Up to Racism event with Diane Abbott
CAGE’s Moazzam Begg dropped just weeks after Hackney branch appearance
Finsbury Park Post Office: Franchise to go ahead despite ‘wealth of opposition’
Diane Abbott expresses ‘disappointment’ at decision as local campaigner vows to carry out boycott threat