Hackney Council displaying their characteristic control-freakery and incompetence:

“It seemed a diktat had come down from above that I was a non-person and should be barred from the library for the crime of writing an off-message piece on the Olympics. This essay, published in the London Review of Books, responded to aspects of the creation of the Olympic Park in the Lower Lea Valley: the destruction of the Manor Garden allotments, the eviction of travellers, and the famous ‘legacy’ revealed as nothing more than a gigantic shopping mall in Stratford.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/22/hackney-library-book-ban

http://opendalston.blogspot.com/2008/10/dalston-author-iain-sinclair-banned.html