SHADIKA MOHSIN PATEL was just 40 when she died.  Her body was found  in Altmore Avenue, near the junction with Barking Road, E6 in the early hours of Thursday, 19th March. She had been stabbed. Police have now confirmed that ...

THE CAMPAIGN FOR peace has often been led by women campaigners – as Isabel Allenda suggests. In April, we remember the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston march: our “Thoughts” this month will concentrate on aspects of peace. “I can promise you that ...

CORONAVIRUS is still causing a several hundred deaths a day in the UK – and that figure includes a number of Muslims, whose lives the virus has brought to an end. The East London Mosque has now brought together a ...

HE’S NOT KNOWN for catchy slogans, but former UK Prime Minister William Gladstone found a neat way of counterposing the main motivation for war – and its alternative. In April, we remember the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston march: our “Thoughts” this ...

POLICE HAVE issued an appeal for witnesses to come forward after a fight in Broad Oak Close, E4, ended with three men being stabbed. The fight occurred around 5am on the morning of Friday, 27th March. The police were called ...

ASTONISHING: 500 years ago a simple statement spelled out the absurdity of war. In April, we remember the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston march: our “Thoughts” this month will concentrate on aspects of peace. “Can anything be stupider than that a man ...

BERNIE SANDERS is the one mainstream candidate campaigning solidly from the left in the US presidential election campaign. He has now acknowledged that he cannot win enough votes in the primaries to become the Democratic Party candidate in this autumn’s ...

AT A SEAT IN THE restaurant at the end of the universe, Douglas Adams – we hope – is sat penning more observations on the workings of the universe and its inhabitants. “Human beings, who are almost unique in having ...

A MAN WHO appeared in court last Friday, 3rd April, to answer a charge that he murdered a woman in Newham has been named as Kieran Rifat, 21, of Grange Road, Plaistow. He was remanded in custody. It was just ...

TO END Women’s History Month, let’s remember that women’s liberation is a class issue too, not just a battle against patriarchy – whatever Margaret Thatcher might have thought. She may have risen to the highest office of state of any ...