LABOUR MAYOR of Tower Hamlets John Biggs was left red-faced after his Administration put out a press release referring to his predecessor as “Luther Rahman”. “Lutfur Rahman” is probably one of the best known names in Tower Hamlets. The Borough’s ...

THE RICH MIX team are wishing their supporters a happy new year. The cultural centre is remembered in Tower Hamlets for winning generous public subsidy and in particular for the controversial £850,00 loan it received from the Council some years ...

ONE DAY into the New Year – and Jeremy Corbyn’s critics are already having a go. This time they are using Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite, the UK’s largest union, to attack the Labour Leader. The whole saga will come ...

Black and Asian Muslim youngsters, particularly young women, “do worse for jobs”, even though it is white boys from poor families who “do worse” in school. The finding comes from the Social Mobility Commission – an independent but official body. ...

Muslim Aid organised a “big food drive” at the East London Mosque last Friday – with generous worshippers donating a mountain of food for those homeless at Christmas. Ten tonnes of food was handed in by those going to pray, ...

Labour’s John Biggs has been mayor of Tower Hamlets for just over a year now – and he rushed out this morning to congratulate Tower Hamlets “A”-level students who were finding out the results of their hard work over the ...

Margaret Hodge revealed the strategy of the Corbyn coup plotters on Radio 4 this morning (Sunday, 10th July): to win by keeping Jeremy Corbyn off the ballot paper for Labour Leader. Her revelation helps explain the tactics of the Coup ...

The last time Labour MPs tried to find a way to squash the views of Labour Party members, they had to eat humble pie. It was at the turn of the century, as the Labour Party selected its candidate to ...

When Judge Richard Hawkins sentenced 17 year old Ian Devlin to nine years imprisonment for the racist manslaughter of Shiblu Rahman, he took the unusual step of allowing the killer to be named, even though he was under 18, saying ...

Owen Jones was reviewing the papers on Sky News  last night. So was Julia Hartley-Brewer (who began her journalistic career on the East London Advertiser before moving to the Evening Standard and the Express). Owen had already tweeted his amazement ...