East India Youth is not, alas, a group of young people who have grown up in the East India area of Tower Hamlets. However, it may be the next best thing: a young man from Bournemouth who markets his music ...
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Oxfam gigs fight poverty
Oxfam’s seventh annual “Oxjam” music festival takes place throughout next month – with warm-up gigs taking place in the last days of September. The main events in October will be run by volunteers: over 6,000 of them, working in over ...
Read More »Auction art for cancer care?
A couple of centuries ago, do-gooders would wander round the East End on a Sunday (flower posies held to their noses to ward off the stench of the poor), to
Read More »Obama speaks on Washington shooting
Tony Benn – 10 min History Lesson for Neoliberals
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Read More »Get set for next May
Councillors in London will enjoy an extra three weeks in office this electoral cycle, with the announcement that the 2014 elections will be held on
Read More »Report shows “benefit scroungers” are a Tory myth
The Conservative-led Coalition Government has defended its controversial “welfare reforms” on the basis that most welfare benefit claimants are undeserving, work-shy scroungers who have been living a life of luxury funded by the hardworking tax-payer. Back on planet earth, the ...
Read More »Halal excels at Excel
The Halal Food Festival is coming to East London. It styles itself the UK’s first festival to celebrate halal food, and claims to be the largest event of its kind in the world. It will be at the Excel Centre ...
Read More »Cost of uni mounts under Tories
Research from Santander has provided up to date figures on just how expensive going to university is for the average student these days. Making students pay for their own education is pretty much a wet dream for the Tories, who ...
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