Politics

THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT has done a good thing by promising to enact one of the previous Tory Government’s plans. Now there’s a sentence you don’t hear often. The cause of all this joy is that the Government has announeced that ...

ELN COMMENT: LABOUR COUNCILLORS are having a hard time of it lately – looking for new ground to occupy now that their party is in national government but is still giving local government a hard time. For many voters, the ...

IT’S NOT THE first time that Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor Lutfur Rahman has stepped in to save the people of Tower Hamlets from Government cuts. But it is the first time he has had to save us from Labour Party ...

ARE YOU funding the genocide in Gaza? You may not want to send guns to the Israeli state so they can murder more Palestinians. But someone is paying for those weapons – and it may be you. Now the Tower ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...