Once again, a bunch of enterprising folk have spotted the gap in the market between the Hackney Gazette and the council-run snoozepaper, Hackney Today. They’ve filled it with the Hackney Post.

It looks promising and propaganda-free - rape, sex clubs and pneumonia are on the front page as I write - though it could probably lose a bit of the self-referential stuff like the video interview with the editor (”it’s a challenging role” apparently).

I wonder, though, whether the new rag is any relation to this Hackney Post, which vanished last year? And where does it leave the Hackney Mail, which seems to have fizzled out after one story?

Anyway, good luck Hackney Post. Tell it like it is and may your questions be ever awkward.