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“I am willing to go to prison for the principle of privacy for all of us.” Muhammad Rabbani I WAS arbitrarily detained at an airport by UK police and asked to hand over the passwords to all my electronic devices. Not ...

Emdad Rahman We focus so much on the “homeless” part we forget the “people” bit… # TheWanderingLondoner TONIGHT AT THE soup kitchen we had a mixture of the kids and new volunteers stepping in, including Dr Mohammad Hassan from Queens Hospital, Romford, who ...

Emdad Rahman I DIDN’T expect to see many regulars today. Winter is different, and our homeless friends need to keep coming just to keep the big freeze at arms length. Stratford isn’t very friendly and we have a definite need ...

Emdad Rahman Maybe a home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst. It’s been a busy weekend for us. On Christmas Eve I visited Mujib’s Chill & Grill, who very generously agreed to donate 50% ...

Emdad Rahman “Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin. It was rainy, dark and bleak. The town centre was bustling though. My team Scintilla Cricket Club had taken on the soup ...

Emdad Rahman This week we had a special guest as Tom Parmenter from Sky News joined us at the soup kitchen at Stratford City. Apparently Owen Smith thinks he could eradicate homelessness within five years if he was to come ...

Emdad Rahman Former Liverpool player John Arne Riise was in London on the eve of the Club’s sellout clash with Barcelona at Wembley to talk about his distinguished seven years with one of the worlds greatest football sides. The event ...

Emdad Rahman The One Third soup kitchen team finished the last shift of Ramadan 2016 with a biriani belter at Stratford City. The night’s team consisted of a mix of adults and kiddos, all determined to serve their community. Homeless ...

Oliver Letwin MP is the Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office. Government papers, which are routinely released after 30 years, show what he (and fellow civil servant Hartley Booth) wrote about the riots on Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate ...

Peabody Housing Association was established in 1862 by the US banker and philanthropist, George Peabody. Nowadays their mission is “to ensure that as many people as possible have a good home”. Really? In Tower Hamlets, Peabody has been known as ...