East London may be gentrified, but it didn’t stop my daughter being mugged at knife-point in Hackney
This is depressing if unsurprising. My elder daughter, Lily and her then-boyfriend were mugged, aged 15, by two grown men, one of whom was carrying a large serrated zombie knife. It was... Read more »
Never underestimate the misery, pain and violence that drugs cause in working class communities such as those I supported as a youth worker. I am not just talking about drug addiction, which... Read more »
Shoreditch is one of London’s trendiest and most iconic areas, but this status has come at the cost of increased “gentrification” in the area. Shoreditch overlaps the boroughs of Hackney and Tower... Read more »