A woman’s abuser is monitoring her social media activity, asking who she is messaging, stalking her around her house before attacking her. This is just one of the cases that Solace Women’s Aid’refuge in Islington has been dealing with since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Marie, the refuge manager for Islington, says that since the start of quarantine she’s taken in three women and three children.

Living in limbo Residents on Love Lane Estate are frustrated by lack of communication with the council Written in partnership with the Centre for Investigative Journalism and funded by Trust for London

An analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on Haringey’s low income residents, has revealed that more than 2000 households in the borough could be at risk of being made homeless. The council’s Housing and Regeneration Scrutiny panel stated in September that 2062 households could be at risk of homelessness across all housing tenures. Of these, 1452 live in the private rented sector, with around half of these residents being at risk now that the Covid-19 temporary ban on evictions has been lifted. Th

Education has been significantly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, as much for learning as it is social. Taking school home has been challenging for Tottenham’s students, with the chaos of the pandemic gobbling up school leavers expectations. It’s been easier to articulate the challenges for GCSE and A-Level students, but less so for year 12, a group of students who, Temi Ashogbon, 17, says, aren’t being ‘taken care of by the government.’ Temi is an ambitious student at Tottenham’s London Acad

In 2017, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees found that 58% of the estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon — who make up one-fifth of the country’s current population — live in extreme poverty. Currently, Lebanon is home to more refugees on a per capita basis than any other in the world. Because Lebanon did not ratify the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, nor its 1967 Protocol, it has no developed asylum system, so the state has simply closed the border, with few exceptions, an

Get a Real Job Earlier this year, I was working behind the counter in a busy central London venue pitched somewhere between cafe and arts space. Despite the bad pay and zero-hour contract, I was happy there; enjoying the camaraderie between colleagues and getting lost in the moment during a busy shift. Chatty customers would often ask me what I did on the side. To which, I would insolently respond, “I just do this”. If you have ever worked in hospitality then you too might have been told to “get a real job”. But what constitutes a real job? Is it working hard? Is it earning a salary? Or getting paid sick leave?

Tottenham MP, David Lammy outlines his vision of justice in his latest book, Tribes “This crisis is reminding us of our common humanity,” David Lammy MP tells me. I am speaking to Mr Lammy on the phone from my living room. Like most people around the country, we are both in self-isolation. Shared experiences like this emerge from the chaos caused by the pandemic – and because of this, Lammy says, there is potential for “meaningful change.” Lammy addresses this change in his latest book, Tribe

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