CAN WE TRUST the news coming out of Bangladesh – especially the reporting of how the country is dealing with the Covid pandemic? A recent attack on a journalist has raised fears that the media is now anything but free. ...

JULY BEGAN WITH a day out at the Art Pavilion in Mile End for Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs. The visit was organised so that he could thank the volunteers who have kept it – and many other extra ...

IF UK DEMOCRACY is a shining example for the rest of the world to follow, then someone needs to help the rest of the world.  Two institutions crucial to the functioning of a democratic society have been found wanting today: ...

JOHN BIGGS has been at it again – closing down facilities which serve some of the most vulnerable members of the community in Tower Hamlets.  It is a move which saw users of Council day care centres stage a public ...

IT’S TIME TO TALK! After months of insisting that it was the end of the road for negotiating over new contracts for Council staff, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has agreed to meet Unison to talk about the ongoing ...

PRESSURE IS mounting on Labour Councillors as Tower Hamlets Unison branch conducted its third set of three days of strike action in protest at management imposing new contracts on the Council workforce. As strike action began, ten Labour Councillors signed ...

JOHN BIGGS is to sack the entire Council workforce on Monday, 6th July in order to impose new terms and conditions at work upon them. Biggs was elected on a Labour Party manifesto – and trade unions are now wondering ...

AS THE Prime Minister and his Cabinet announce apparently random easings of the Lockdown in England, usually leaving the public in ever greater confusion, London’s doctors have expressed their concern about whether they could cope with a second wave of ...

THE PANDEMIC is not over – and as countries struggle to cope with the situation at home, there are worrying signs that the US, and perhaps some allies, may respond to the pressure with bellicose statements. The Stop the War ...

THE LABOUR PARTY did not release a statement from current Leader Keir Starmer to mark International Workers Day on May Day. We only have the May Day statement from Jeremy Corbyn to enjoy (see yesterday’s “Thought”). However, Starmer did manage ...