President Obama is not that good on legacy. By the time he leaves office at the end of the year he will leave behind him a vastly improved healthcare system, a reduced (but not closed) operation at Guantanamo bay and… ...

Donald Trump has appealed to black people in the USA to vote for him on the basis they have nothing to lose. He told an election rally that black voters live in poverty, with poor public services – claiming black ...

Hillary Clinton has formally acknowledged that she now has enough delegates in place to be chosen as the Democratic Party’s candidate for US President. Winning the vote isn’t always a guarantee of going on to be the official candidate, but ...

Donald Trump’s race for the White House has suffered a setback, with rival candidate Ted Cruz winning the primary contest in the mid-western state of Wisconsin. Trump remains in the lead of the contest to be selected as the Republican ...

One of the few benefits of being Pope is that you are infallible – you don’t make mistakes. In all good games, there’s a special reward when you get to the top level, and in Catholicism anyone who gets to ...

Warning: potentially offensive islamophobic image below. Alas, it seems Donald Trump is slightly cleverer than we thought. The two major parties in the USA, the Democrats and the Republicans, are choosing their candidates for November’s presidential elections. The candidates are ...

Donald Trump’s suggestion that Muslims should be barred from entering the USA has elicited a storm of protest around the world – with a community gathering outside the East London Mosque last Friday joining in – but has also elicited ...

WELFARE NOT WARFARE is the slogan adopted by the Stop The War Coalition to cover a short tour of meetings to build an international movement against war. The meetings will provide an opportunity to hear first hand accounts from a ...

IT WAS all smiles as teams took part in a tournament for the Mayor’s Cricket Cup over August and September. It wasn’t so much “Cup” as “Cups”, as six winners proudly took home their trophies. Mayor Lutfur Rahman voiced his ...

WHETHER Keir Starmer was loyal to the Labour Party when he was Prime Minister was always in doubt. Now he has resigned as an MP, there is no more doubt. Starmer’s press statement says that he had been considering his ...