THERE’S NO SUCH thing as a free lunch – or, in this General Election, a free breakfast. The funding for the free school breakfast which Theresa May offered the nation will only cover a 25% uptake. Oh dear. The policy ...

THE BBC WAS FILMING Mohamed Fadiel, who lives in Manchester but is of Libyan heritage, outside Didsbury Mosque in Manchester. So when a passer-by stopped to tell Mohamed that Muslims should do more to control their communities, he was caught ...

QUESTIONS ARE being asked about why the USA has been kept so closely informed about the Manchester suicide bombing. It began on the night, when US officials were the first to announce that the explosion in the Manchester Arena had ...

THERESA MAY goes into the General Election able to confirm that since she has become Prime Minister, net immigration has begun to fall. It didn’t fall while she was the Home Secretary responsible – but she may not want to ...

TWO SMALL STEPS towards gay rights have been taken in the last week – one in Asia, and one in London – while another report indicates that LGBT people are still subject to persecution. •Taiwan has laws which define marriage ...

Emdad Rahman JIFA FC FROM NEWHAM fought off strong competition to win the inaugural borough Champions League trophy. A close knit final round of games in the six team tournament saw three teams standing an equal chance of winning the ...

There are surprisingly few statements about the Manchester attack being made in Tower Hamlets. Here we print a statement from the East London Mosque and then such comments from prominent party political leaders as we have been able to find. ...

THE PRIME MINISTER has authorised raising the assessment of the level of threat the UK faces from terrorism to “critical” – the highest threat status. This level of threat is usually implemented when security forces have specific intelligence that a ...

THE DEATH TOLL in Manchester stands at 22, with the 59 injured including some victims who have life-threatening and life-changing injuries. The city and its people are still trying to take in what has happened, as sympathy is sent from ...

Emdad Rahman THOUSANDS OF lawyers and supporters in central London joined the Lord Chief Justice to walk 10k and raise funds for the London Legal Support Trust (LLST). The Trust provides funds for Law Centres and pro bono agencies in and ...