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TODAY IS Holocaust Memorial Day – and Cllr Rabina Khan has marked the occasion with an article in The Independent. She explores how words can be used to encourage hate and even provoke violence – and how we can use ...

IF YOU’RE IN A HOLE, stop digging. That’s a phrase the Tories seem to have forgotten this month as squabbling Ministers make it every plainer that the Tory Government is having a hard time. Theresa May must be running out ...

EACH YEAR for the last five years Oxfam has produced a report on the gap between the richest individuals in the world and the poorest communities – and the news is that the gap is getting bigger. The report is published ...

UKIP Leader Henry Bolton has lost a vote of no confidence at a meeting of UKIP’s ruling body. The vote was taken because Mr Bolton’s girlfriend had tweeted a series of offensive messages. Mr Bolton has since ended the relationship. ...

HISTORY WAS MADE at the meeting of Tower Hamlets Council last night, 17th January. No one was sure if this was the very first opposition motion which Labour had agreed to debate at a Council meeting – but the debate ...

THE COLLAPSE OF Carillion is more than just one private company failing – and the Labour Party has been combining several strands of attack to make the Government wake up to the problem. Since the construction and related services company ...

CAMPAIGNERS TRYING to stop London Mayor Sadiq Khan vandalising Fish Island by permitting a new road bridge to be built and a wharf to be demolished are having a publicity day on Tuesday, 16th January. Activists from the Save the ...

MAREK ZAKROCKI told police “I’m going to kill a Muslim. I’m doing this for Britain” – before going on a mini rampage around Harrow. He shouted abuse and caused damage – too drunk to carry out his threat. Zakrocki pleaded ...

DONALD TRUMP probably didn’t use the flimsy excuse “I’m washing my hair” when he decided not to come to the UK next month – but he has ducked out of the chance to open the new US embassy. When Trump ...

NEW RESEARCH commissioned by London Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that a “hard Brexit” could subdue economic growth for ten years – handing London “a lost decade of lower growth”. The warning comes from Cambridge Econometrics, a company commissioned by ...