Ben Mortimer: ‘I want to preserve the block WhatsApp group and people doing things for their neighbours’
The local writer on his experience of lockdown, what it has meant to friends and neighbours, and why he’s ‘extremely glad’ for Victoria Park
Opinion
Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley: ‘Despite high-profile errors, technology has proven to be a saving grace during the pandemic’
The local writer looks into the relationship between man and machine as it ‘approaches a critical juncture’
Letter: ‘Remove all barriers to NHS care for overseas workers and migrants’
Keep Our NHS Public, Hackney Migrant Centre, unions and others call on local politicians and health bosses to help end ‘hefty’ surcharges
Elli Free: Will we ever learn?
The director of Room to Heal, a local charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers, on Windrush, immigration detention, and opportunities for ‘fundamental change’ post-lockdown
Travis Elborough: Maps for the mind during lockdown
The acclaimed local author on why we now need maps more than ever, ‘even if the routes and roads they contain are never taken’
Letter: ‘We should be celebrating the private sector, not using it to score cheap political points’
Chair of Hackney Conservatives Jack Sutcliffe defends ‘dynamic private sector’ in response to our story about a delivery of the wrong coronavirus tests to a mobile centre in Dalston earlier this month
2020: A brutal siege
Local doctor Patrick Bogue on the ‘striking parallels’ between his work in the Gaza strip and tackling coronavirus in the NHS
Coronavirus: ‘It’s not just the health inequities of people of colour that should be up for debate’
The disproportionate number of Covid deaths among the BAME population ‘underscores the inescapable extent of inequality in modern Britain’, writes Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley
Letter: ‘Labour MPs must amend the Trade Bill to prevent further NHS privatisation’
Lifelong health campaigner Shirley Murgraff calls on opposition MPs to ensure ‘strong protection’ for the health service in trade deals
A plea to parents: ‘Kindness to strangers can be measured precisely – it is two metres’
A local resident and park-goer with an underlying health condition appeals to families to take social distancing seriously
Titbits – Trump fans and Diane’s plans
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Leader – Clipped wings
The Home Office could learn from Hackney’s handling of Windrush – now, after a very public snub, we’ll see if it really has the willing
Titbits – Revealing demo and a frosty hello
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Leader – Klein and fall
The rise in homophobia in Hackney will sadly continue if those in public office don’t face serious consequences for it
Titbits – Cleaning up the air with Burke and Square
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Leader – Silvertown blues
Why is near unanimous opposition to the controversial £1bn tunnel not being reflected by political leaders? Londoners deserve an answer