Politics

KEMY BADENOCH must be fuming. She was having quite a good week – made some strong points at and even got some jokes into Prime Minister’s Question Time, and looking like a Conservative Party Leader. Then it all went wrong. ...

IN HIS OWN WORDS, Lutfur Rahman described the budget that he intends to bring to the Council in February. He was speaking at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 7th January. The budget papers before the Cabinet were not the final ...

HE LOVED Tower Hamlets.  And Tower Hamlets loved him back. The announcement that Simon Baxter, Corporate Director for Communities, has died after a short illness has been met with genuine sadness across the borough. The news that Simon had passed ...

THE TOWER HAMLETS Council Cabinet met on Wednesday, 7th January – in what was probably the warmest room in the Town Hall.  The meeting had a single main item on the agenda: the budget for 2026/27 – but it began ...

AS PART OF the Labour Government’s campaign to crack down on migrants, Keir Starmer has given “border authorities” the power to seize phones from “illegal migrants”. Bet Farage didn’t think of that one. The Government’s thinking is that migrants’ phones ...

ELN: US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela. This is so wrong on so many levels that it is hard to know where to begin. We are not fools There is no justification for breaking ...

SENSITIVE AND personal information about residents was probably “copied and taken” during a cyber attack affecting three London Councils last November. A helpline and email address have been set up to answer questions from worried residents. Westminster Council is the ...

BEFORE WE look forward to 2026, let’s take a moment to look back at what was happening in Tower Hamlets in 2025. What was the Council up to? What were its memorable moments? Here’s the highlights of the first six ...

THE STARMER Government is planning to reduce public expenditure by cutting welfare benefits and restricting the number of people who can apply or them. This has come as a surprise to quite a number of Labour MPs, and some members, ...

WE ALL KNOW that Nigel Farage was tempted out of retirement and back into politics. We all know that he led Reform to a good result at the 2024 General Election – and had a breakthrough in the May 2025 ...