OVER THE last five years, child poverty in Tower Hamlets has increased by just over 5,000 – that’s around an extra 20 children a week, nearly three children a day, living in families that just can’t make ends meet. During ...
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New platform promotes digital business
A NEW platform which is seeking to encourage digital business was launched last Monday, 22nd March. The Platform – Pathfinder – has announced that it aims to catalyse innovation, growth, business opportunities. The platform hopes that its work will lead ...
Read More »Kind Counter launches in Tower Hamlets
Muhammad Talha THE KIND COUNTER, a new community social support and networking platform, has been launched in Tower Hamlets. It is a wellbeing communication platform which will be used to share books, food, clothes, stationary and bespoke items with anyone ...
Read More »Trump: reloaded and trigger happy?
Mak Kunwar THE DEMOCRATS need to have long, hard look at themselves. They tried to slay the monster – but they may find that Hydra has returned, strengthened for the fight to change the terrain of US politics not just ...
Read More »STWC calls on the world to stop the war in Yemen
THE WAR IN Yemen – and, therefore, the future of its people – is poised on a knife edge. Trump is rattling his biggest sabres as he makes the final touches to his legacy – but there is hope that ...
Read More »Thousands set to die on the streets
Tom Zagoria, a member of the Labour Homelessness Campaign, looks at the developing humanitarian crisis among the homeless. AS THE UK goes back into lockdown in the cold winter months, campaigners are warning that the Government’s refusal to fund a ...
Read More »Make it welfare, not warfare, in 2021
AS THE WORLD heads into a new year, the Coronavirus pandemic is not the only threat to our health and wellbeing. In many countries across the world, war rages on – or, even if a war has officially ended, populations ...
Read More »Campaigns ask for support for health and climate justice
THE CLIMATE JUSTICE movement hasn’t gone away – it’s just waiting an extra year for the next international climate conference – COP26, due to be held in Glasgow next November. COVID-19 put paid to the original plan to hold the ...
Read More »Is the US still a global threat?
PEOPLE ACROSS the world are cheering the departure from office of Donald Trump – hoping that his exit will make the world a safer place. Less often discussed is whether Joe Biden will bring a different approach to the White ...
Read More »Start building – from the ground up!
THERE’S A WEEK of virtual debate taking place from Monday, 16th November to mark the ongoing battle to persuade world leaders to tackle climate change – with the urgency it deserves. The UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, due to be ...
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