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The Coalition Government is trying to run down social housing in favour of using public money to subsidise private renting deals – keeping house prices high enough to avoid another immediate recession. They have put all sorts of restrictions on ...

We all know the old joke about doctors having poor handwriting: but it’s come to something when confused communication spreads across the whole NHS – and then jumps the species barrier from handwritten to computer generated copy, as is the ...

The trade unions and Labour Party have been complaining about the increased use of zero hours contracts for some years now. These are standard contracts of employment in all but one respect: the employer does not stipulate how many hours ...

Andrew Coulson, former Editor of the News of the World, has been found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones while he was in post. This is the man whom David Cameron employed as his Director of Communications. When direct allegations ...

Of course many political commentators have dismissed UKIP as a Party which is just too old fashioned for the modern day voter. The world has moved on, they say – but still UKIP harks back to the glory days when ...

It’s a well known fact that Jim Fitpatrick MP (Poplar & Canning Town) is a dog lover. Didn’t he used to have a dog called Scruff who won the House of Commons dog show one year? In March this year, ...

The results of the elections on 22nd May 2014 have opened up a debate in Tower Hamlets about the relationship between Lutfur Rahman and the Labour Party. Good: ELN wrote about this in the early hours of 24th May (Labour: time ...

It was close – but not that close. Labour told us the electors had had enough of Lutfur Rahman – hated him; saw him as corrupt and divisive; would stand it no longer. How wrong they were.  Although 27,643 people ...

The counting of the councillor elections began a bit after the mayoral result was declared: maybe around 2am or so.  LBTH is publishing detailed ward results on http://moderngov.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=22&V=1&RPID=3009658 and there is no need for us to repeat them here. The ...

Reetendra BANERJI (Lib Dem) 1959 John BIGGS (Labour) 27,643 (1st preference), 6,500 (2nd preference) = 34,143 Reza CHOUDHURY (Independent) 205 Hafiz KADIR (Independent) 162 Mohammed KHAN (Independent) 164 Nicholas MCQUEEN (UKIP) 4,819 Hugo PIERRE (Trade Union and Socialist Coalition) 871 Lutfur ...