Politics

Aspire Councillor Kabir Ahmed (Weavers Ward) stood by his decision to take a motion on the knife crime emergency in Tower Hamlets to the Council meeting on Wednesday, 17th November. The motion was based on a petition drafted by Maium ...

TONIGHT, The Tuesday Show asks why residents seem to be treated as an inconvenience by any authority trying to redevelop East London or to provide public services. ELN editor Jenny Fisher is joined by two community activists from Lansbury ward ...

IT TOOK a by-election loss to persuade Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs to change his mind on one of his key policies. He has only changed it in that it is “paused”, rather than going “full steam ahead” – ...

TWO WEEKS AFTER losing the Weavers by-election, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has announced that he is changing his policy on “liveable streets” and having a Cabinet reshuffle. In very similar press releases, both Tower Hamlets Labour Party and ...

AMONG THE most sickening sights at the end of the western occupation of Afghanistan has been that of former Prime Minister Tony Blair – lecturing us on what the UK should do about foreign policy. Blair played his part in ...

TONIGHT residents and electors of Tower Hamlets can meet the new Aspire councillor – Kabir Ahmed, who was elected to represent Weavers Ward last Thursday, 12th August. Cllr Ahmed will be the studio guest on this week’s The Tuesday Show ...

AS BORIS JOHNSON recalls Parliament on Wednesday, 18th August to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, the Stop the War Coalition has called on activists to remind MPs that they were warned against military intervention. The invasion of Afghanistan took place ...

BY ANY STANDARD, the Weavers ward by-election on 12th August was a tremendous victory for Kabir Ahmed and Aspire.  Executive Mayor John Biggs doesn’t like losing – and scenes as the Count hinted at what is to come over the ...

THE TUESDAY SHOW tonight will look at the reorganisation of youth sport in Tower Hamlets.  Our special guest is Shuhel Malique: a PE teacher in Tower Hamlets for 18 years; a hockey superstar; and former PE Curriculum Manager for Tower ...

APSANA BEGUM, MP for Poplar & Limehouse, has today been found not guilty of three counts of making dishonest applications for council housing to Tower Hamlets Council. Rumours that Apsana Begum was guilty of fraud began circulating in Tower Hamlets ...