Emdad Rahman MAYBE HOME IS nothing more than two arms holding you tight when you’re at your lowest. It’s a time of the year when people really feel the blues – what with the festive shopping, cooking and entertaining leaving many ...
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Succeeding Through Setbacks
Cllr Rabina Khan’s speech to BNP Paribas Diversity Conference, October 2017. First, I would like to thank Anne and Connor for organising an event on behalf of BNP Paribas to recognise how important diversity is, both in Britain and globally. ...
Read More »The mindset of a champion
Emdad Rahman meets the legendary Judoka Brian Jacks. AS A CHILD Brian Jacks was very sick, and this prevented him from taking part in sports or even running around the playground. At the age of nine doctors discovered he’d been ...
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By Faiz Akbor, aged 15 The majority of our people here are made of clear glass. Not a single spec of dust on their smooth skin. You can see right through them for they have no hidden stories or secrets ...
Read More »Homebuilding & Renovating Show comes to ExCel
ExCeL, London, 22nd-24th September 2017 AT ITS current growth rate of six per cent, the number of new homes being built in England is expected to reach 16,500 by 2020, according to the Self & Custom Build Market Report 2017 ...
Read More »Pure indulgence
Maruf Ahmed THE INDULGENCE SHOW, London’s newest lifestyle entertainment event, is returning to the Novotel Conference Centre in Hammersmith, from 29th September-1st October, bringing visitors high-end luxury products including electric cars, motorised recreational vehicles, home entertainment products, headphones and much ...
Read More »Beanibazar does the soup kitchen
THE EVE OF the much anticipated Greater Sylhet Cup at Mabley Green in Hackney we took to our soup kitchen with homeless friends at Stratford City. People who see them Think the homeless have no shame What they don’t realise ...
Read More »Radio 4 marks 70th anniversary of India Partition
Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury BBC Radio 4 will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India in 1947. This will include an exciting dramatic revival of Salman Rushdie’s award-winning Midnight’s Children, which is due to be broadcast on the birthday of ...
Read More »Seeing out Ramadan with homeless friends
Emdad Rahman “Helping one person might not change the world but it could change the world for one person.” HALF OF homeless people are afflicted with diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer or arthritis but do not receive any treatment. It’s a ...
Read More »Bethnal Green & Bow: “Labour is the only option for here”
Sebastian Pender Leaning casually against a squat rack, professional fighter Pablo Benn shakes his head before telling me that the “Conservatives had their chance and they messed up. They’ve been messing up for years now. It’s lies, it’s all based ...
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