
Once something of a misanthropic haven bloated with more kebab houses than the "ironic" backpacks and boating shoes of nearby Shoreditch, Dalston has, to all extensive purposes, merely become what many round these parts may brand "another one of them ". Whatever that may mean or to what them may refer in the first instance. Gentrified to an almost sinister degree, the majority of any originality and with it diversity has been wiped off the essence of the district, just as the spacked up glass bottles, fag cellophane and whatever else has been swept from the streets [...]