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The smallest things can have the biggest influence on a political career. If then Labour Leader Michael Foot had put a different coat on that day he went to the Cenotaph, perhaps he would have become Prime Minister. His crime, ...

Emdad Rahman The Tower of London has just welcomed the latest Yeoman Warder – or “Beefeater”. Yeoman Warder Lawrence Watts recently started at the Tower in this iconic role. He becomes the newest Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London, ...

by Shahadate Hossain The United Kingdom is renowned for its multiculturalism. The story of colonisation in the British Isles was started by Celtic and Pict tribes. Then the Romans came in 55BC – succeeding in conquering most of the land by 250AD. After the Romans left, Germanic tribes – the Angles, ...

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 ...

A case study of the Holland Estate and why top down approaches to urban planning can only ever offer partial, skewed and arguably irrational solutions to London’s housing crisis. By Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor For the past two years the residents of ...

Taysir Mahmud, Editor of the Weekly Desh, which is published in London, asks if is a free and fair election is possible in Bangladesh without a caretaker government. Last April I went to Bangladesh as my father suddenly passed away. I ...

Barrister Nazir Ahmed remembers Justice Mustafa Kamal, one of the most talented judges in the history of Bangladesh. Former Chief Justice of Bangladesh Justice Mustafa Kamal died of a cardiac arrest at his residence at Gulshan in the capital on ...

The stowaway rat – was it a tourist? going to visit friends in the UK? an aspiring illegal immigrant? a refugee? an economic migrant? lost? – allegedly spotted on the Air India flight on 30th December is not the airline’s ...

Oliver Letwin MP is the Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office. Government papers, which are routinely released after 30 years, show what he (and fellow civil servant Hartley Booth) wrote about the riots on Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate ...

Peabody Housing Association was established in 1862 by the US banker and philanthropist, George Peabody. Nowadays their mission is “to ensure that as many people as possible have a good home”. Really? In Tower Hamlets, Peabody has been known as ...