Day one: and three victims are off the hook. We cannot stress enough that all political parties which stood candidates in last May’s mayoral and councillor elections signed an election protocol before nominations closed. Under its terms, they agreed to ...
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The court case Labour wouldn’t openly back…
It started today – but already all charges against one of the Defendants have been dropped. After last May’s mayoral election, four individual Tower Hamlets electors petitioned the election court, claiming that Lutfur Rahman could not have won the election ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets Board first to sign up to reduce late HIV diagnosis
It’s Tower Hamlets first, as the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Board is the first such Board to support the “Halve It” coalition. The move has been warmly welcomed by health campaigners and lesbian and gay activists alike as a move ...
Read More »British Bangladeshi power and inspiration
The 2015 list of the 100 most influence and inspirational British Bangladeshis was unveiled on Wednesday, 27th January at an invite-only, exclusive event in Canary Wharf. The 2015 list and the BBPI Person of the Year were announced by the ...
Read More »Live from the Council
Intense traffic made us rather late for tonight’s Council meeting, but here we are – bringing you the news, the jokes and the intrigue. Tonight’s meeting began with public petitions. First we heard from Mr Dulal Uddin of Poplar High ...
Read More »Council-funded police remove knife from streets
Three youths were arrested near Oaklands school on 7th January suspicion of possessing a dangerous martial arts knife. Officers from the Partnership Task Force (PTF) were in the Canrobert Street area, E2, when they saw three youths acting suspiciously. The ...
Read More »We teach them to hate; we end up with murder
As the year draws to a close, yet another one of our young citizens has had his life ended before his time by hatred turning into mindless violence – and we are left asking how it is that we have ...
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Mayor Lutfur Rahman gave his report to the Council (the Council voted, after he was elected, that he should have five minutes to report to each Council meeting). Mayor Rahman went briefly through the “Pickles process”, pointing out that the ...
Read More »Now they are coming for our children!
The witch-hunt against Muslims in general, and in Tower Hamlets in particular, took an ugly turn on Thursday this week when an Ofsted Report into Sir John Cass & Redcoat secondary school was leaked to the press. This led to ...
Read More »No fireworks: just a £1+ million damp squib
At last, the Price Waterhouse Cooper audit report is out. At last, we can see what the Council Tax-payers of Tower Hamlets have paid for: paid for in terms of the charges made by the auditors and paid for in ...
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