Among the quieter items among last week’s Transport for London board papers was news that up to £500,000 have been made available to the beleaguered traders of Seven Sisters indoor market, known to some as the Latin Village, to help them through the coming months while work on a temporary new home for them is […]
When he was suspended from the Labour Party in September following a complaint that he had shared allegedly antisemitic content on Facebook, Haringey councillor Noah Tucker (pictured) firmly denied the charges made against him. The told the Ham & High, which had received screenshots of comments made and articles shared by Tucker, that he opposes […]
The politics of race and representation can take many forms. Recent manifestations of them in Haringey have shed light on the unending internal strife of the Labour Party in that borough, famously home to the nation’s first and only “Corbyn Council”. In September, following some arcane and contested timetabling issues, Haringey Council’s restive majority Labour […]
Late yesterday afternoon I went to see the movie Tenet, my first visit to a cinema since lockdown. I emerged from its two-and-a-half hours of “high concept” hokum baffled, a bit bored and wondering what the point was, then switched my phone back on to find it vibrating with the latest plot twists in an […]
Health and safety repairs to the Seven Sisters indoor market, known to some as the “Latin Village”, which are essential before traders there can re-open their businesses are not expected to be complete until October, On London has learned. The news was given to market traders in a recent letter from Transport for London, which […]
In a further sign of disquiet within Haringey Council’s majority Labour group, councillors have voted unanimously for the council’s annual general meeting – called simply the “annual meeting” in the council’s constitution – to take place in September rather than in May next year. That might sound pretty united. But in fact the vote demonstrates […]
Last month, the Ham & High reported a row over the postponement of Haringey Council’s Annual Meeting by a full year to next May. Opposition Liberal Democrats leader Liz Morris claimed the council’s Labour leader, Joseph Ejiofor, had driven through the decision “unilaterally behind closed doors” and that it would have been perfectly possible for […]
A Haringey councillor fired from her cabinet position on the grounds that she had failed to keep the council’s leader informed about a court case involving children under the borough’s protection has expressed pride in the work done during her time in her former role while not addressing the reasons given for her dismissal, saying […]
