“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 ...
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Police appeal for witnesses after attack on Owen Jones
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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Read More »Now John Biggs’s Council lets centre-right mob into park
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 ...
Read More »Biggs deep in controversy over political use of parks
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 ...
Read More »India takes step to ethnic cleansing in Kashmir
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 ...
Read More »Campaigners call for new Whipps Cross Hospital
“IT’S TOO LITTLE, too late” claim East London health campaigners in response to Boris Johnson’s cash handout to the NHS. With the Labour Party revealing doubts that the funding includes any new money, health activists say that in any event, ...
Read More »Revealed: Tower Hamlets Council censors Palestine bike ride
TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has been found out refusing to host a charity event organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) – on the grounds that it might be construed as anti-semitic. An article in The Guardian today has revealed that ...
Read More »India outlaws Muslim divorce
INDIAN PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi has tweeted his delight at the decision of the India Parliament to criminalise the “triple talaq” divorce allowed in the Muslim religion. In 2017 the Indian Supreme Court declared the triple talaq was unconstitutional. A ...
Read More »Thousands RUN UNITED at the ASICS London 10K 2019
THOUSANDS OF RUNNERS took to the streets of Westminster on 21st July at the ASICS London 10K 2019, presented by Virgin Sport. The race encouraged people to “run united” to highlight the inclusivity and openness of the city – a ...
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