Politics

Labour is today under the spotlight as one of their campaigners hurled verbal abuse at a young female pro-Lutfur Rahman campaigner in Chrisp Street market. The verbal abuse included swearing and using sexist language. ELN has seen a photo of the pro-Biggs ...

All candidates at a packed election hustings meeting held on Monday in the Royal Docks area of Newham expressed opposition to any further expansion of London City Airport.  The meeting, organized by HACAN East (the body which represents residents under ...

Harry Palmer looks at Lutfur Rahman’s policy record. There are many reasons to wish Lutfur Rahman success in this coming election. But there is greater national significance beyond just its effects in Tower Hamlets. It was 20 years ago this ...

ELN has long argued that the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets should be decided by policy differences: let’s look at how the two candidates shape up on housing policy. Rahman makes it clear his priority is supply. That’s a sensible ...

Well, here we are; three and a half years later, and it doesn’t seem like five minutes since 300 people stood on a frosty Old Ford Road at gone 2am one Friday morning in October 2010 and cheered their heads ...

Friday’s our day off in East London News: and what better way to spend it, given that it is the last Friday of the election campaign, than touring the Borough’s mosques to get the last minute vibes? Imagine our surprise, ...

One of the reasons why the number of people employed in the UK has gone up is that as it’s so hard to get a decent full-time job, people are having to do two or three part-time jobs to make ...

In the first full financial year since this Coalition Government took office (2011/12), the NHS cut £5.8 billion from its spending. Some of these “efficiency savings” were made by finding cheaper prices for things the NHS had to buy, but ...

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 ...