THE LONDON BANGLA Press Club is deeply worried about the escalating violence in Bangladesh, which has seen a large number of students and journalists lose their lives. Students began protesting at the Government’s approach to recruiting to the civil service ...
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Starmer can’t undo own goal on Bangladeshis
“I’M SORRY I upset you about ‘Bangladeshi Removals’” read the headline on the Evening Standard article describing how Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer tried to limit the damage from his careless comments on Bangladeshi migrants. Sorry? Sir Keir Starmer? Yes, ...
Read More »Table for thirty-eight thousand and two, please!
IT WAS NO quiet lunch for two on Thursday as Mayor Lutfur Rahman and Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar went to Swanlea School to celebrate the launch of free school meals for secondary school pupils. “Thrilled to launch free school ...
Read More »Mayor Rahman’s new broom sweeps away Cabinet cobwebs
THIS MAYOR MEANS BUSINESS. So much was clear from the second Cabinet meeting of Directly Elected Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s third Administration. Throughout the meeting, Mayor Rahman and the Aspire Cabinet made reference after reference to what support the residents of ...
Read More »All’s well – till Labour loses the plot
ELN COMMENT: A spirit of constructive governing broke out at Tower Hamlets Council on 27th July 2022 – the first scheduled full Council meeting since the election (the AGM in May dealt only with formalities). It was so different from ...
Read More »Aspire launches campaign to save D7 bus route
IT’S OUT OF the Town Hall and back into the community for newly elected Aspire councillors in Tower Hamlets as, together with party activists, they have been trying to save the D7 bus from the Tory/Labour chop. During lockdown, the ...
Read More »Biggs a “Liability”, “I voted Lutfur” say Labour campaigners
TONY BLAIR, at his most unpopular, was dubbed Labour’s “Liar-bility”. On polling day 2022 in Tower Hamlets, it was a name given to Executive Mayor John Biggs – by a Labour campaigner. Labour campaigners at polling stations were openly admitting ...
Read More »And they’re off! Lib-Dems: Labour’s secret weapon?
ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We have looked at Labour’s and Aspire’s candidates for ...
Read More »Stop the wars – and fight for peace
STOPPING WAR isn’t easy – as those who attended the AGM of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) AGM last Saturday found out as they discussed the causes of wars, old and new, around the world. The STWC came into ...
Read More »Corbyn joins Iftar – as Starmer praises “people in Mosques”
CAN WE HAVE our MP back please, Mr Starmer? That was the thought on many minds as Jeremy Corbyn joined members of the community at Iftar last week in his Islington constituency. The Iftar was supported by the Finsbury Park ...
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