AN EXPERIENCED Labour Party Councillor who resigned from the Party four months ago in concern over the direction the Party was taking has now joined the Aspire Party in Tower Hamlets Council. Cllr Sabina Akhtar, who represents Stepney Green Ward, ...
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Marking Remembrance Day in Tower Hamlets
TRADITIONALLY it is the members of the armed and emergency services and their families who are remembered on Remembrance Day: for sacrificing their lives in defence of the UK. In recent years, civilians who have helped defend their countries or ...
Read More »The historic triumph: analysing Trump’s 2024 victory
By Mak Kunwar In a stunning turn of events, Donald Trump, a convicted felon, has made history by reclaiming the US presidency in 2024, defying all odds and reshaping the political landscape. This analysis delves into the key factors that ...
Read More »Is Starmer about to do his own “Windrush”?
MIGRANTS BEWARE! Keir Starmer’s Government is about to make an administrative error which could accidentally remove the rights of settled migrants in the UK – dwarfing the consequences of the “Windrush” fiasco. Most migrants in the UK have a Biometric ...
Read More »Selling our health data: so wrong
Boris had his parties at no. 10; Cameron his parties back at university; and Starmer had a bottle of beer in an MP’s office. But now there’s a new scandal brewing: and it’s to do with your personal health information. ...
Read More »Labour budget: is it austerity by the back door?
LABOUR’S BUDGET, delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves but clearly endorsed by Keir Starmer, has divided economists and journalists alike. It’s also divided the three Tower Hamlets MPs. ●Poplar & Limehouse MP Apsana Begum took a balanced view – welcoming some ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets: London’s riskiest fireworks borough
FIREWORKS come out at Hallowe’en, at Diwali and on bonfire night: and in Tower Hamlets, that means a concentrated period of fire-related calls coming through to Fire Service control centres. A total of 685 emergency calls from Tower Hamlets have ...
Read More »Sadiq Khan takes role of King Arthur
IT WAS not so much the knights of the round table as the suited and booted politicians of the round table as London Mayor Sadiq Khan sat politicians, experts and campaigners down on 29th October to discuss an Action Plan ...
Read More »Muslim women: not welcome in football?
UK FOOTBALL Authorities are divided about whether Muslim women can observe their religion and play football in the UK at the same time – even if you did used to be the captain of the Somali women’s team. The row ...
Read More »Sit-in, sign up – as Israeli state bans UN aid
THE ISRAELI state has today banned the UN’s Palestine Refugee Agency, UNRWA, from operating inside the Israeli state or in any areas which the Israeli state occupies an controls. The ban seems to be designed to stop the UN delivering ...
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