AND ONCE we have celebrated – get ready to defend their jobs. That’s the message from Tower Hamlets UNISON, which has called a virtual May Day rally to talk about the down side of fighting the Coronavirus pandemic. The Coronavirus ...

EINSTEIN points out that achieving world peace means moving up to a whole different kind of global society.  Although the richer nations claim that their armed forces have kept the peace since 1945, the world has been riddled with regional ...

IT IS A YEAR since Steven Brown was found, dying from a stab wound, in a Hackney street. Now his daughter has added her voice to a police appeal for someone to come forward and help them find whoever killed ...

IT’S BLUNT – but it’s to the point. In war, it is always the ordinary people who suffer – only the powerful gain from it. There’s so many more ordinary people than powerful people: why do we let them get ...

TOWER HAMLETS HOMES (THH) is the Arms Length Management Company which runs the Council’s housing stock on their behalf.  Like many local social landlords, it is also offering help with finding a job. Social landlords offering advice on employment is ...

DONALD TRUMP has long been a much more effective inspiration for comedians than he is a president of the USA. He would be the gift that keeps on giving. Trump’s latest gaffe was to suggest that Coronavirus could be killed ...

AS WE KNOW, life is a marathon, not a sprint – and the headteacher of Manorfield Primary School in Poplar is taking this saying to heart.  He’s trying to raise funds to help pupils through the second phase of the ...

FOYSOL HUSSAIN, a PC attached to the East Area Command Unit, was found guilty of gross misconduct on 15th April after a two day telephone hearing. It was alleged that: •on 18th February 2019 PC Hussain had been required to ...

PEOPLE ARE talking about how the Coronavirus Pandemic could change our society, as people begin to recognise our basic common humanity rather than seek confrontation at all costs.  Nelson Mandela – a man who knew a thing or two about ...

THIS IS THE day on which England remembers its rather inappropriate patron saint. The date was chosen because it is alleged to be the date on which George died – in the year 303AD, when parish records were not what ...