Afzal Sayed Munna SUSTAINABILITY is a lifestyle designed for permanence (Turner, 2010). Sustainability is a comparatively simpler idea, which can be explained in purely descriptive terms as the capacity of any given system to exist and reproduce on a long-term ...
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Thought for today 24.05.20
WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. How do we conduct this debate? Can the oppressed ...
Read More »Island Network delivers 2,000th meal
Emdad Rahman THE ISLAND NETWORK’S Covid-19 Support Group on the Isle if Dogs has delivered its 2,135th food pack since the Lockdown started. Island Network volunteers distribute weekly meals and food packs to over 150 needy residents on the Island ...
Read More »Two arrests after Chingford man is murdered
POLICE ARE investigating the murder of Mark Baker, 62, from Chingford. He was found unconscious, with a head injury, in Peacock Close, Walthamstow, in the last minutes of Sunday, 19th April. The London Ambulance Service went to Peacock Close and ...
Read More »Boris or Biggs: who’s right on return to school?
IT’S NOT JUST our working and social lives that came to a halt when the Lockdown was announced. For young people from three to 18, their worlds shrank as schools closed and they were sent home. Is it time for ...
Read More »Student jailed for attempted rape at Hackney bus stop
A STUDENT has started a four year jail sentence handed down at Wood Green Crown Court earlier this month. Rami Othmane, 21, who is originally from Sicily but was living in Hackney when the offence was committed, had pleaded guilty ...
Read More »Thought for today 23.05.20
WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. Here Rosa Luxemburg sums up why political activism is ...
Read More »Breaking news: fire ravages Bethnal Green flats
FORTUNATELY there are no reports of deaths or injuries after a fire broke out in flats in Hadleigh Close, E1 in the early hours of this morning, Thursday, 28th May. One man was taken to hospital as a precaution. Eighty ...
Read More »Thought for today 22.05.20
WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. Here, Owen Jones reminds us why a system based ...
Read More »Return of Premier edges closer
THE CLUBS in the English Premier Football League have voted unanimously to take another step forward in their plan to resume professional matches at the top level. The decision was taken after consultation with clubs, players, the Professional Football Association, ...
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