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Editorial: A fantastic victory for the St Mungo’s Broadway Strikers, and a fascinating piece on our hollowed out lives

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Editorial: A fantastic victory for the St Mungo’s Broadway Strikers, and a fascinating piece on our hollowed out lives

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By Reuben Bard-Rosenburg If you didn’t notice, something a bit bloody brilliant happened last Tuesday. The week before last, the North London Star reported on the on the seven day strike by workers at homeless Charity St Mungo’s Broadway. We were expecting to report on further actions in the weeks ahead. But this we shall […]

St Mungo’s Broadway strike rally in Harringey: rocketing union membership, and a will to persist

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St Mungo’s Broadway strike rally in Harringey: rocketing union membership, and a will to persist

By Reuben Bard-Rosenburg Yesterday, workers at homeless charity St Mungo’s Broadway demonstrated outside Haringey Civic Centre, as they marked the final day of their week long strike. “One director told us that we wouldn’t find any work elsewhere because we were unemployable”, one worker told me. With bosses like this, its perhaps possible to understand […]

An exciting week ahead

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An exciting week ahead

By Reuben Bard-Rosenberg So, today marks the beginning of an exciting week, for all of us who are oppose to the current order of things. This morning NHS midwives were engaged in an unprecedented strike over ongoing attacks on pay an conditions. From what I’ve seen the pickets were pretty well attended despite the manky […]

Editorial: Look at our awesome calendar

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Editorial: Look at our awesome calendar

Editorial by Reuben Bard-Rosenberg Back in the day I was sat in a meeting with my fellow North London Star Jim, when an activist got up and denounced the event as a talking shop. Jim spoke next and in characteristic fashion said that he quite liked the idea of a talking shop, since it was a […]

Video: Thank you and Goodbye Scotland

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Video: Thank you and Goodbye Scotland

Reuben Bard Rosenberg’s musical thoughts on Scottish Independence from the “rotting trout” of the UK.

Editorial: Introducing the new letters page, and hoping for a slightly noisier September

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Editorial: Introducing the new letters page, and hoping for a slightly noisier September

Editorial by Reuben Bard-Rosenberg Sorry I’m late sir. The dog ate my printer. As proper fans of the North London Star will know, the editorial is meant to come out on a Monday, and today is indeed Tuesday. Feel free to call me a nasty name like Arnold or Gertrude. Anyway I do come bearing […]

Editorial: Lots going on, but what do we actually think?

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Editorial: Lots going on, but what do we actually think?

Editorial by Reuben Bard-Rosenberg Good evening, happy Monday, and welcome to week 5 of the North London Star. There’s been a fair amount going on in North London last week, and I’d say we’ve reported on a good slice of it. August, it turns out, is not silly season after all. Earlier in the week 200 […]

North Londoners plan the fight against TTIP

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North Londoners plan the fight against TTIP

by Reuben Bard-Rosenberg Yesterday I went along to a meeting in Islington of activists opposed to the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). TTIP is a treaty being negotiated between the US and EU, which will not only remove barriers to trade, but which will also strictly limit the ability of governments to carry […]

We’re Into week three…And I’m loving this local publication thing

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We’re Into week three…And I’m loving this local publication thing

Editorial by Reuben Bard-Rosenberg Dare I say, it’s been another good week for the North London Star.  This is the first time I’ve been involved in a local publication. Though I liked the idea from the offset, I did worry about whether we’d have enough interesting things to write about. My excitement was punctuated by the […]

Are hipsters really pricing people out of their neighbourhoods?

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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 […]