NewsObserver.com - Politics (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives argued at a press conference in Washington, D.C., this morning that billions in spending on infrastructure projects, social welfare programs and renewable energy projects would keep the economic situation from worsening.
Snarkylicious (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Jesus H. When I procrastinate, I can seriously procrastinate or what? Lets be clear then. Things I have accomplished today: - Brought the rugs down from my room from after Thanksgiving and put them in the lounge. - Called the man at Hackney to bitch about the ongoing saga of the missing bike shed key. - Called my US bank to close my matured CD and move it into my savings to cover my student loans...
DISCODAMAGED (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
GutterSlut celebrates Christmas on Sat the 20th of December at Images, 483 Hackney Road,E2 9ED with Miss Crystal MC, DJs...
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Along with other Hackney councillors who signed an anti-BNP letter in the local paper, I've had this email from one of their nine members in the borough: "Dear Mr Akehurst, my name is Giuseppe De Santis and I'm writing to you in relation to the leaflets delivered by the British National Party in Hackney. Far from being ashamed,I'm a very happy member of this party. Actually I'm the first Italian to...
Pepys' Diary (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Up before day, and Cocke and I took a hackney coach appointed with four horses to take us up, and so carried us over London Bridge . But there, thinking of some business, I did 'light at the foot of the bridge, and by helpe of a candle at a stall, where some payers were at work, I wrote a letter to Mr. Hater , and never knew so great an instance of the usefulness of carrying pen and ink and wax about...
stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Apologies for blogging slackness this week, due to a combination of workload and PMT. But I did get round to writing to the Hackney Gazette about the leak of the BNP's membership list, and you can read my letter here .
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Another split in the SWP... One of my constituents in the ward I represent on Hackney Council, Chatham Ward, is John Rees, Clapton Square resident and former National Secretary of Respect. He has now fallen out with his comrades and been purged from the SWP Central Committee. The local anarchists (we get the full spectrum of leftwing nutters in Hackney) have been moved to poetry by the political demise...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The bickering over bank lending descended into pantomime farce this week. "YOU'RE NOT LENDING ENOUGH" shrieked Lord Mandelson who surely has a future on the stage of the Hackney Empire if his political career founders again.
A blog for Finsbury Park N4 (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
[from Hackney Gazette] ESTATE FACELIFT HIT BY SLUMP hg.editorial@archant.co.uk 27 November 2008 A £1billion masterplan to replace the crumbling housing stock in the north-west of the borough has been hit by the credit crunch. The Gazette can reveal Hackney Council is to go cap in hand to the Treasury to ask for millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash to [...]
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The debate over bank lending descended into pantomime farce this week. "You're not lending enough," shrieks Peter Mandelson, who surely has a fine future on the stage of the Hackney Empire if his political career runs aground again. "Oh yes we are," chorus the banks. "Oh no you're not," booms a troupe of small business owners. Peter tiptoes towards the audience and stage-whispers: "What shall we do,...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
A commentator called - appropriately enough - Stop the Witchhunt reports: The sad news arrives that the SWP Central Committee voted by 10 votes to two to remove John Rees from the Central Committee this morning. There will now be much weeping and wailing all over a very small part of Hackney, followed by seven days [...]
Karim Beyrouti (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
NewsObserver.com - Politics (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Joe Hackney is hitting up Barack Obama for money.
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Another by-election looms in Hackney because my colleague Jamie Carswell is stepping down as Deputy Mayor and from the Council. We seem to specialise in mid-Winter by-elections. Not much fun canvassing in these temperatures. I think I will have a busy Christmas and New Year as I'm Agent for the constituency in question, and the ward is not without interest to the local Green Party. My job is to ensure...
Do You Come Here Often? (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
I played a gig with Keith on Saturday night, at my friend Helen's party in a front room in Homerton. I believe it was the wonderful Hatfield And The North who once said that there's no place like Homerton , and while that isn't quite true (Hackney and Dalston are fairly similar, for a start) it was as good a place to spend the evening. Gigs in people's houses are almost always awful – mainly due to...
