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43 days ago

‘History is repeating itself’: fight against far-right in London’s East End goes on

Eighty-nine years after residents drove Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts from Tower Hamlets, anti-far right coalition is still vital in borough

“The East End of London is the far right’s prime target – the…

66 days ago

West Ham tumble in modern football’s vortex, with home now a distant memory | Jonathan Liew

A feeling of loss and dislocation surrounds the East End club, which has never been part of tourist or establishment London

Graham Potter still turned up for work on Saturday morning, even though ther…

69 days ago

The UK’s summer of Oasis is over – but the unity and euphoria it created is unforgettable | Emma Garland

Bringing together people of every generation and accent, the Gallagher brothers articulate something at the very heart of Britishness

Everyone is here. Facebook mums clink plastic cups of frozen cockt…

3 months ago

The astonishing story of the aristocrat who hid her Jewish lover in a sofa bed – and other German rebels who defied the Nazis

From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped ‘non-Aryan’ students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler – only to be dramatica…

4 months ago

Father Figure by Emma Forrest review – a slippery tale of teenage obsession

Bristling with sexual, political and emotional angst, this finely tuned coming-of-age tale thrives on the grey areas of adolescence

Father Figure opens with a memory of murders, bought and paid for; t…

6 months ago

8 months ago

Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur review – pomposity puncturing gets lost in personae

Wallace Collection, London
Artworks ‘by’ Perry’s new alter ego – an abuse survivor from the East End called Shirley Smith – sit among works by real outsider artists. His stronger pieces are more strai…

When the East End stopped for Ronnie Kray's final goodbye: Gangster's funeral featured minders in dark suits, a cortege that blocked traffic and brother Reggie on day release

Chief among the mourners was Ronnie's brother Reggie, who was on day release from the murder sentence that was handed down alongside his brother's in 1969.

The week in audio: Where Politics Meets History; Down the Caff; Archive on 4: No Blacks No Irish – review

LBC’s Iain Dale and historian Tessa Dunlop tackle Very Important Topics. Plus, deliciously chaotic fun at a much-loved East End cafe, and a vital but uncomfortable retelling of recent racism in Brita…

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