Author: Valerio Esposito

From Mumbai slum to podcast star: Sangeeta Pillai’s story of resistance and persistence

Poplar activist Sangeeta Pillai is on a mission to break taboos for South Asian women using a microphone as her

Mile End’s Mabel Lucie Attwell: The children’s illustrator who brought the magic of Peter Pan and Alice and Wonderland to life.
Beigels, the BUF and the Blitz: how the East End started speaking Cockney Yiddish
Our ultimate guide to the new LIDO festival in Victoria Park
Inside the grand opening of the V&A East Storehouse
Out now! Tower Hamlets Slice’s spring/summer print edition is landing on doorsteps this week

The Scarlett Letters radical bookshop to close following Instagram blowout and staff strikes
Virginia Primary School in Bethnal Green set to become an academy
Clawing to stay: The fight to keep London’s first cat cafe in Bethnal Green open
Best things to do in Bethnal Green
High rents driving turnover and gentrification in Tower Hamlets

Could Tower Hamlets’ proposed ‘culturally sensitive’ rehabilitation centre create better outcomes for the nitazenes crisis?
Don’t stop the party: Recent nitazenes deaths in London expose gaps in nightlife drug safety
Policing addiction: Why Tower Hamlets is spending big on enforcement amid a synthetic opioid crisis
New ‘Dilly’s Den’ garden in Royal London Hospital will allow seriously ill children to enjoy the outdoors
The lone crusader: Why Zoë Garbett is London’s only politician talking about nitazenes