Politics

ANOTHER CHAPTER in the long running dispute between cab service Uber and the British state ended today, as the Supreme Court ruled that Uber drivers – at least, the two who brought the test case – are workers. The saga ...

JOHN BIGGS appeared in (virtual) public last night, 17th February – but he continued to ignore requests to explain why he had gone for a walk with Cllr Ehtasham Haque around the St John’s estate, E14. The meeting was organised ...

WHY DID THE UK BAME community suffer disproportionately from the Covid pandemic? Because institutional racism in UK society let BAME people live in overcrowded conditions and take the lowest grade jobs. Why did the Black Lives Matter movement protest so ...

“WHY WAS Executive Mayor John Biggs walking round the St John’s estate, with Cllr Ehtasham Haque, on 6th February?” is one of the questions on the lips of many residents in E14. Now there is a chance to push for ...

THEY ARE keeping it zipped – but members of the community are continuing to ask for Executive Mayor John Biggs and Blackwall & Cubitt Town Labour Councillor Ehtasham Haque why they were going walkabout on the Isle of Dogs this ...

AROUND THE UK Councillors have been helping local communities during the various Covid lockdowns and tier experiences. They have delivered food, helped community groups and reorganised council services (and budgets) to meet the new situation. Sometimes, though – with so ...

IT IS ALWAYS GOOD to see an Executive Mayor take a first hand interest in their borough – so it was good to see John Biggs spending his Saturday morning out and about with Cllr Ehtasham Haque on the Isle ...

THURSDAY, 6th May is the date on which elections for the positions of London Mayor and Members of the Greater London Assembly will be held – one year after they were due to take place and postponed by the Covid ...

LUTFUR RAHMAN, former Directly Elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has spoken out to support the borough’s libraries and Ideas Stores – the latest service under threat of closure by Tower Hamlets Council. Lutfur Rahman posted a statement on his Facebook ...

Tom Zagoria, a member of the Labour Homelessness Campaign, looks at the developing humanitarian crisis among the homeless. AS THE UK goes back into lockdown in the cold winter months, campaigners are warning that the Government’s refusal to fund a ...