In the old days, when you had a festival or a fun-day, your Council told you when and where it was and what was going on and you went their and did it. Now, under Boris Johnson’s free-market London, you ...

At 8am today, junior hospital doctors began a 48-hour strike – wondering whether it would be third time lucky as they attempt to defeat government attempts to change their contracts. Doctors had already staged two one-day strikes, after negotiations between ...

There was traditional East End rebellion in the air on Saturday, as over 100 residents of Old Ford Housing Association gathered at St Paul’s Church in St Stephen’s Road to ask what had gone wrong with their housing association. As ...

A truly breathtaking clip of two figures addressing the worrying housing crisis. John Redwood MP is a truly chilling master of Tory doublespeak, while Ken Loach adopts the Corbyn approach of reasoned argument tinged with empathy and a little impatience. ...

The annual Quicksticks Hockey festival was held in Whitechapel at the end of February. Two hundred and fifty pupils descended into the area, all eager to take home the trophy. This year had the biggest number of participants to date ...

Easter is usually associated with birth and awakening, and 2016 is actually the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – so his plays have all been with us slightly longer than 400 years. Nonetheless, the O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome) is ...

This summer thousands of families will experience a truly Golden Moment together by being among the first to run on the brand new track in the former Olympic Stadium at the Great Newham London Family Run. The Family Run, part ...

Happy International Women’s Day! Celebrate by watching a young woman of Asian heritage who knows her stuff (Shami Chakrabarti) destroy a Tory Government Minister who has been trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Go sister!   [Adverts]

The death of Nancy Reagan, widow of the late US President Ronald Reagan, was announced at the weekend. She was widely heralded in the press as a woman who had sacrificed her own career in order to support her husband ...

Tony Benn has a quick moan about the threat to renew Trident: the main points against Trident in under a minute!