Emdad Rahman The Island Dads Club IDC is a voluntary group based on the Isle of Dogs which encourages local fathers to participate in regular sporting activities. Football is a regular activity for them, and it sees members from all ...

What better way to let off steam the weekend after May’s election than to go for a run – and what better way to go for a run than to join thousands of other people doing the same thing? Fortunately ...

As the junior hospital doctors started their second day of strike action, new figures were released which showed that the Government’s strategy of starving the NHS of money are having an effect on patient treatment. The NHS has a target ...

The pre-Corbyn Labour Party came in for a great deal of public criticism during the various investigations of MPs’ expenses. Here’s Jacqui Smith MP, former Home Secretary, digging away at that hole in response to questions from a member of ...

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 ...