It’s well known that many young people in Tower Hamlets go on to work in retail. Whether they are
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Linda’s Psychedelic Parallelograms
Parallelograms marked the way forward
In 1970, Linda Perhacs was a Californian dentist – and a psychedelic folk artist. Linda’s album “Parallelograms” came out that year, and initially no one really noticed. But eventually it was discovered, and it was re-issued in 2005 and 2008 ...
Read More »Austerity: the truth about life at the bottom
The empty slogans trip off the tongue: it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt of austerity… women suffer disproportionately from the cuts…
Read More »You may want to go to Chelsea
Though Tower Hamlets’ Idea Stores can give you access to a range of printed volumes and, though the internet, to even more written material, readers who want to get their hands round a genuinely old book will have to go ...
Read More »Hospice makes it two in a row
Beckton- based Richard House Children’s Hospice has won a gold medal at the London Garden Society awards for the second year running. The repeat victory came in the “small garden” category. Richard House supports children and young adults who ...
Read More »GPs: open all hours?
One of the dangers of letting political parties have conferences is that you have to put up with
Read More »Who are the illegal immigrants, then?
Blogroll for the mature reader…
You’re never short of a blog these days, are you? And it’s not just the younger web-user who is catered for. Gransnet has been going for just over two years, and it’s really developed and come into its own in ...
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