Politics

In the old days, the UK had a taxation system: corporations handed a set percentage of their profits over to the state each year, and elected politicians spent the money in accordance with the priorities their party had won the ...

The empty slogans trip off the tongue: it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt of austerity… women suffer disproportionately from the cuts…

One of the dangers of letting political parties have conferences is that you have to put up with

A couple of centuries ago, do-gooders would wander round the East End on a Sunday (flower posies held to their noses to ward off the stench of the poor), to

Councillors in London will enjoy an extra three weeks in office this electoral cycle, with the announcement that the 2014 elections will be held on

The Conservative-led Coalition Government has defended its controversial “welfare reforms” on the basis that most welfare benefit claimants are undeserving, work-shy scroungers who have been living a life of luxury funded by the hardworking tax-payer. Back on planet earth, the ...

Research from Santander has provided up to date figures on just how expensive going to university is for the average student these days. Making students pay for their own education is pretty much a wet dream for the Tories, who ...

The debate over health and safety is one which brings out the differences between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. At the start of 2012, David Cameron famously announced that his new year’s resolution was to get rid of ...

Tower Hamlets Council is working with faith groups to protect and preserve places of worship in the borough. The Historic Places of Worship Support Scheme, due to run till 2016, builds on English Heritage’s annual update of its “heritage at ...

The EDL website has announced that it will be holding a demonstration in Tower Hamlets on Saturday, 7th September.