IT WAS unprecedented. Tower Hamlets Councillors united, almost to a person, to stop the Council’s pension fund investing in companies involved in the arms trade. The Council and its employees both contribute a small sum to a pension fund each ...
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Mayor Rahman reports to January Council
AN EXECUTIVE MAYOR is accountable to the public who elected them, rather than to the Council. Nonetheless, the Mayor is alloted six minutes every meeting to address the Council. That’s about half an hour a year, or two hours each ...
Read More »Council celebrates outstanding Ofsted of Children’s Services
AT LAST! Tower Hamlets Council’s Children’s Services has been awarded an “outstanding” rating, following an inspection by Ofsted at the end of last year. And Labour stalwarts tried to claim the credit. The Council meeting on 22nd January began with ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets Council opens in good spirits
THERE WAS a `businesslike start to the January meeting of Tower Hamlets Council on what was a cold winter’s night. Inside the Chamber, all was somber, with almost everyone dressed in dark colours. Only the Speaker introduced a splash of ...
Read More »Welcome ceasefire: now fight for justice
NEWS OF the ceasefire agreement – reached in the last days of the Biden Administration in the USA and under the watchful eye of Donald Trump – saw celebrations in Gaza and around the world. Now we fight on – ...
Read More »Tulip of Hampstead damned
IT IS HARD to know who has come out of the Tulip Siddiq saga the worse: her, the MP for Hampstead & Highgate and former Economic Secretary to the Treasury; or him, Leader of the Labour Party and UK Prime ...
Read More »Starmer and the buses: spin or substance?
THE GOVERNMENT is blowing its trumpet today as it announces that it is keeping the cap on bus fares going. The cap, introduced by the last Government, means that travellers outside London won’t pay more than £3 for a bus ...
Read More »Warehouse fire sends smoke across East London
MORE THAN 120 firefighters have spent the day tackling a massive blaze in a warehouse in New Road, Rainham. The fire was spotted at around 10.20am and was brought under control by 3pm. The warehouse is believed to be a ...
Read More »It was Blair who broke the NHS
WES STREETING MP, Secretary of State for Health, has announced that the NHS is “broken” – and he has a Baldrick-style “Cunning Plan” to mend it. What Streeting hasn’t confessed is that it wasn’t the Tories who broke the NHS ...
Read More »Stop the War Coalition: membership offer
THERE ARE many good reasons to join the Stop the War Coalition. The last year has seen more and more wars springing up – wars between countries and wars on people. Let’s work together to stop them. To underline how ...
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