WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. Here’s a controversial iconoclast challenging us to take an ...
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Coalition resists post-Corona war drive
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 ...
Read More »Competitive sport is back – but only behind closed doors
THE GOVERNMENT has announced that competitive sport may resume in the UK from Monday, 1st June – but only after the governing bodies of the individual sports concerned have assessed the risk, and only as long as there are no ...
Read More »Five arrests and knives seized after Stepney Green stabbing
POLICE investigating a stabbing near Stepney Green Tube station, which took place on 5th April, have arrested five young men. They have also seized a number of weapons, including two large knives. The stabbing took place just before 11pm. The ...
Read More »Thought for today 25.05.20
WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. One of the questions we need to address is ...
Read More »COVID-19 and sustainability in higher education
Afzal Sayed Munna SUSTAINABILITY is a lifestyle designed for permanence (Turner, 2010). Sustainability is a comparatively simpler idea, which can be explained in purely descriptive terms as the capacity of any given system to exist and reproduce on a long-term ...
Read More »Thought for today 24.05.20
WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. How do we conduct this debate? Can the oppressed ...
Read More »Island Network delivers 2,000th meal
Emdad Rahman THE ISLAND NETWORK’S Covid-19 Support Group on the Isle if Dogs has delivered its 2,135th food pack since the Lockdown started. Island Network volunteers distribute weekly meals and food packs to over 150 needy residents on the Island ...
Read More »Two arrests after Chingford man is murdered
POLICE ARE investigating the murder of Mark Baker, 62, from Chingford. He was found unconscious, with a head injury, in Peacock Close, Walthamstow, in the last minutes of Sunday, 19th April. The London Ambulance Service went to Peacock Close and ...
Read More »Boris or Biggs: who’s right on return to school?
IT’S NOT JUST our working and social lives that came to a halt when the Lockdown was announced. For young people from three to 18, their worlds shrank as schools closed and they were sent home. Is it time for ...
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