Politics

Metropolitan Police Service crime figures up to the end of March 2014 show that incidents classed as “Islamophobic crime” have nearly tripled, from 17 to 50 individual incidents. The increase coincides with the period of time in which Labour and ...

The BBC’s Panorama programme is in the news again. The allegations aired during the programme were not new: the “documentary” referred to Council grants made several months ago.  Viewers saw former Labour Leader Cllr Josh Peck say that he was “pretty ...

The elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, joined with construction workers and trade unionists to take part in International Workers Memorial Day on Monday, 28th April. The Mayor laid a wreath at the Building Worker statue in Tower Hill ...

Harry Palmer looks at the aftermath of the Panorama programme. The Metropolitan police have found no credible evidence of fraud in John Ware’s Panorama dossier on Lutfur Rahman. They have made it quite clear that if the audit currently being ...

On Wednesday evening last week, Tower Hamlets First put out a press release stating that Professor Michael Keith, former leader of the Council, had written a document in 1995 in which he claimed John Biggs had written material which was ...

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An extraordinary memo, written by former Labour Councillor – and former Council Leader –Michael Keith has revealed that Labour’s internal splits on the issue of race go back nearly 20 years. In the memo, Michael Keith twice accused John Biggs, ...

London Labour stands divided as once again Tower Hamlets Labour members invent a special policy with which to attack Mayor Lutfur Rahman – without stopping to check what their own mayors are doing just a postcode away. Tower Hamlets was ...

It was interesting to hear that the Met had decided not to investigate Mayor Lutfur Rahman and/or the Town Hall for committing fraud or other criminal offences on the basis that “no credible evidence” had been supplied to “provide reasonable ...

The Metropolitan Police Service has today issued a statement confirming that it is not launching an investigation into fraud in Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Town Hall – because the allegations of fraud made to date are not accompanied by any credible ...