Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury London is the world’s greatest city for watching the very British sport of football, with fans travelling across the nation and the globe to enjoy the London matchday experience. London’s success – including that of its football clubs – depends ...
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Islam “evil” says UKIP leadership candidate
TOMMY ROBINSON, former Leader of the English Defence League (EDL), is backing Anne Marie Waters to be the next Leader of UKIP. Waters is one of eleven UKIP members who are taking part in the contest to select a new ...
Read More »“Careless” Biggs loses second Deputy Mayor
AS THE NEWS broke that Cllr Rachael Saunders had resigned as Deputy Mayor, Cllr Ohid Ahmed has criticised Labour Mayor John Biggs for weak leadership. “Within six months, two female Deputy Mayor have left the Biggs Administration,” said Cllr Ahmed. ...
Read More »Cllr Oli Rahman tells Biggs: do a Rachael!
THE ONLY fitting response to Cllr Rachael Saunders’s resignation is for John Biggs to follow her example says Cllr Oliur Rahman, Leader of the Opposition, The Independent Group of Tower Hamlets Councillors. “I have been calling for months for Cllr ...
Read More »Cllr Rachael Saunders in shock resignation
IN A SHOCK announcement late this evening, 8th August, Cllr Rachael Saunders announced that she is resigning as Deputy Mayor and from her Cabinet position. She has also said that she will not stand again as a council candidate in ...
Read More »Tony Blair escapes prosecution
IT WAS BAD news today for Abdul Wahed Shannan Al Rabbat, who has been trying to take a private prosecution against Tony Blair through the British courts. The former Iraqi General alleges that Blair committed a crime when, as Prime ...
Read More »Government “saving money, not lives”
A VACCINATION against the human papilloma virus (HPV) is currently offered to all girls aged between 12 and 13 as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme. Now the Government has refused to extend the offer to boys. Girls were ...
Read More »We won’t be silenced on community safety!
IT WASN’T so much a Council meeting as a Labour Rally in the Town Hall last week – and, once again, the meeting failed to discuss topical motions tabled by opposition councillors. Now Tower Hamlets councillors are going to make ...
Read More »Sporting youngsters to lobby Council tonight
SUPPORTERS OF the Tower Hamlets Youth Sports Foundation (THYSF) will be lobbying the Council tonight to protest against a lack of funding for this organisation – and its extensive programme of sport enjoyed by young people across the borough. The ...
Read More »Corbyn challenges May on pay cap
JEREMY CORBYN has pressed Theresa May to lift the public sector pay cap – in the last Prime Minister’s Questions session before the House of Commons summer recess. The Labour Leader spoke about the lives of ordinary public sector workers, ...
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