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Author: Merilyn Moos \ Football \ Review \ Sport \ Spurs \ Tottenham theatre \ War \ WWI
Review: ‘The Story of Walter Tull’
by Merilyn Moos A remarkable and poignant production of ‘The Story of Walter Tull’ was put on by the newly formed Tottenham Theatre (dir. Lynda Brennan), in partnership with the Bruce Grove Youth centre, and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The play was chosen for the theatre’s first production partly because of Tull’s links to […]
Author: Janette Evans \ eviction \ homelessness \ Housing \ YMCA
Life and eviction at the YMCA
by Janette Ewans I was shocked today to see a post on my face book page about eviction resistance at the Y.M.C.A. in Crouch End – for two reasons – my own daughter has been living there for the past 2 months and also although I have been involved in activism specifically around housing and […]
Gaza \ open thread \ Palestine
*** Open Discussion Thread *** Forum for Gaza ***
What are your thoughts on Gaza? Have you seen the coverage, have you been on the protests, do you know anybody in Palestine or Israel? How does the bombing affect you as a person in North London? What can we do together to help the people of Gaza? Please comment below. If you have any […]
Author: Heidi Saarinen \ Lordship N22 \ Paddy Power \ Wood Green
It’s not just chosen few who should get a say on high streets
by Heidi Saarinen, of the Lordship N22 Campaign Group – @LordshipN22Camp ‘As a community, we must remember that the responsibility of the future of our communities, our place here and now and more long term, is really with us’. Having been involved in the local Lordship N22 Campaign to stop Paddy Power taking over the former Lordship […]
Author: Merilyn Moos \ Bloomsbury \ Hampstead \ History \ immigration \ MI5 \ Migrants \ Refugees \ secret service
Review: how we spied on the anti-Nazis who fled to Britain
Merilyn Moos Reviews “A Matter of Intelligence. M15 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees 1933-50” by Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove. We too often think of the consequences of Nazism as something far away from us. But many of the refugees who came to the UK between 1933 and 1939 ended up living in and […]
Betting shops \ Community Campaigns \ Haringey \ Paddy Power \ Wood Green
No Paddy Power at the Lordship N22
From the campaign; Earlier this year Paddy Power Bookmakers applied to Haringey Council for a premises licence to open a betting shop on Lordship Lane in Wood Green potentially making it the third betting shop in a small parade of 20 shops. There was overwhelming objection to the application by local residents and businesses, some of whom had […]
iraq \ kurdish community centre \ kurdistan \ western kurdistan
Haringey’s Kurdish Community Centre statement on Peace in Kurdistan
The Peace in Kurdistan Campaign has released the following statement on the worsening situation in Western Kurdistan – which the Haringey-based Kurdish Community Centre are currently campaigning. Rojava must not fall: Support Kurdish democratic autonomy against ISIS The Kurds in Syria have been under fierce assault from ISIS since 2 July but very little of what […]
Author: Hope Liebersohn \ Miners' strike \ Review \ Theatre \ trade unions
Review: Wonderland
by Hope Liebersohn Beth Steel was the daughter of a Nottinghamshire miner, and her play about the miners’ strike of 1984-5 at the Hampstead Theatre in Swiss Cottage runs until 26 July only, and is well worth a visit. You’ll get an insight into the cold, determined cabinet minister, Nicholas Ridley and the Coal Board […]
Author: Reuben Bard-Rosenburg \ hipsters \ Kentish Town
Are hipsters really pricing people out of their neighbourhoods?
By Reuben Bard-Rosenberg These days it’s hard to get through a conversation about London’s ongoing housing crisis without the discussion turning to hipsters and gentrification and hipster led gentrification. This is perhaps unsurprising. As incomes stagnate, and house prices continue to rocket thousands are indeed being forced out of their neighbourhoods. Meanwhile, the opening up of […]
Author: Charlie Smoke \ LGBT \ mental health
Austerity and the mental health crisis in the LGBTQ* community
This article is by Charlie Smoke of the Polarised Project The flash bulbs that exploded over the sandstone exterior of Islington Town Hall on the 29th March 2014, in celebration of the first same sex marriage, were almost bright enough to whitewash the cracks rapidly appearing in the LGBTQ* community. Almost. The London Borough of […]
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