Politics

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

WHO KNOWS what’s happening with the transition to electric vehicles? We all know it would be a Good Thing because it would cut carbon emissions – but it seems that no one can figure out how to do it. It ...

A MAYOR will always want to implement their Manifesto – but some, it seems, will find it easier than others. For example… In 2015, Labour’s John Biggs promised that if he was elected he would give the Rich Mix Centre ...

REFORM UK has more members than the Conservative Party. Their website real-time membership clock clicked over the Tory total just in time for Nigel Farage to announce it on the slow-news Boxing Day. On the face of it, this has ...

THE Stop the War Coalition has looked back on 2024 with dismay – and determination to do better next year. What has been so dismal, then? First, there have been demonstrations around the world in protest at the wars and murders ...

“I WOULD love to go to a Food Bank.” There were the words of a Tory Government Minister, speaking on the radio a couple of years ago. “All that free food. People are really lucky and they don’t appreciate it.” ...

IT’S NOT just pensioners who need help with fuel costs and other bills. Tower Hamlets relies on local small businesses to provide local jobs and to sell us the goods and services we need. And climbing costs are not helping ...