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THE TORY way of doing foreign policy used to be to send out the British Navy to resolve any disputes with other countries by firing a few cannon – or threatening to do. New Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ...

A LABOUR COUNCILLOR has published a video on his Facebook page of a speech he has given criticising the Labour Party. He claims that the Party’s decision to run an All-Woman Shortlist (AWS) to select Jim Fitzpatrick MP’s successor in ...

ONCE AGAIN, Tower Hamlets veteran politician Helal Abbas Uddin has seen the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) take a decision which affects his political future. But this time, rather than being in his favour, the NEC has dashed his ...

THE UK HAS lost its “virus free” status on measles, after 231 cases were recorded in the first three months of 2019. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has noticed and promised to take steps to protect the population from this serious ...

“I’M NOT LISTENING” is the message Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs sent to residents and councillors last Friday, 16th August. Just two days after councillors on the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (O&S) asked him to reconsider his decision to ...

POLICE ARE searching for evidence after a premeditated attack on Owen Jones left the campaigning journalist hurt but not intimidated. Jones was with five friends in the Lexington pub in Pentonville Road, Islington on Friday evening – leaving at around ...

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THE COUNCIL that banned a The Big Ride, a charity raising money for children in Gaza, from one of its local parks seems to have let a shadowy centre-right think tank hold an ideas conference in another park. The Council’s ...

IS JOHN BIGGS guilty of double standards? This is the question local activists are asking after Tower Hamlets Council refused to allow The Big Ride for Palestine to end a charity bike ride in a public park as it may ...

THE WORLD is holding its breath as India continues to take steps to bring the state of Kashmir – the only Muslim majority state in India – more closely under its direct control. Most Muslim-majority states became part of Pakistan ...