Titbits — Spin, festive faux pas and crafty brewery tours
Computer says ‘No’ to Town Hall light show, positive spin gets a whole new meaning and Diane Abbott’s brewery tour steers a careful path through Hackney
Opinion
Leader — If it is broke, do fix it
What are the implications of recent events in Tower Hamlets for Hackney’s executive mayoral model?
Titbits — Secular snack tables, Boris bagels and graveyard gossip
Abney Park suffers hatchet job, Boris gets bagels named in his honour and ‘affordable’ micro-homes arrive in the borough
Titbits — History lessons, mansion tax and no bangs for the bucks
A lecture by Edward Benyon proves history is indeed written by the victors as Hackney politicians bring the mansion tax spat closer to home
Leader — Dog’s breakfast of a ‘resurrected’ campaign
Plot thickens over Head of Regeneration’s last-gasp call to arms as pow-wows on petition do not add up
Titbits — Bromsgrove beckoning, Mayoral rumours and playing away
Exodus of talent as Islington gets riot play, Bromsgrove snatches Tom Ebbutt and rumours abound over Mayor Pipe’s next move
Titbits — Charity knit-picking, turfed out terrapins and hipster hassle
Mayor Pipe and Hackney Heroine have trendy tiff, government’s ‘Victorian’ stance on charities and predators finally purged from Clissold Park pond
Leader — Children pay for Gove’s tinkering
Schools see mixed GCSE results amidst shifting goalposts
Leader — the legacy of the 2011 riots
Three years on from the riots, are we preparing for more civil unrest?
Titbits- Trash talk and historic horticulture
Scythes and a herd of cows replace tractors on Walthamstow Marshes but is the Council’s latest recycling initiative equally as primitive?
Leader- knife crime debate cut
No debate held over new knife crime law as Town Hall submits hardline view to Parliament
Leader – The winner takes it all under our unfair electoral system
Proportional representation would be a more sensible approach. After all, it works in Scandinavia
Leader – Hackney Council’s gesture politics over betting shops
Town Hall asks Pickles for more power to restrict where bookies can open, but Labour itself opened the floodgates
Leader – Mayor Pipe’s policy is Pickles’ dream
Does Hackney’s Labour leader see Tories’ council tax vote-winner as measure of his success?
Sainsbury’s N16 – If you build it they will come
Rab MacWilliam, former editor of N16 Magazine, gives his personal view