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IT TOOK Daniel Osborne a couple of minutes to kill Makram Ali and injure several bystanders. It took nine days to try him for murder and attempted murder. It took the jury less than an hour to convict him. Osborne ...

SIR ROBIN WALES, Mayor of Newham, is reported to be fighting for his political life as he goes through a Labour Party “trigger ballot” to determine whether he will be Labour’s candidate for mayor at this May’s elections. In most ...

LABOUR LOYALIST John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is facing accusations of hypocrisy after adding his name to a letter in the Sunday Times headed “Labour Executive wrong to meddle”. In the letter, Labour Council Leaders declared independence from the Labour ...

JEREMY CORBYN has announced plans to tackle homelessness – with the first target being an emergency acquisition of 8,000 properties to accommodate people who are sleeping on the streets. The Labour Leader was speaking on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show at ...

TWO LABOUR MPs in Tower Hamlets have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling on Israel to stop holding Palestinian children in military detention – but campaigners are asking why it has taken Rushanara Ali two months to add her ...

TODAY IS Holocaust Memorial Day – and Cllr Rabina Khan has marked the occasion with an article in The Independent. She explores how words can be used to encourage hate and even provoke violence – and how we can use words ...

IF YOU’RE IN A HOLE, stop digging. That’s a phrase the Tories seem to have forgotten this month as squabbling Ministers make it every plainer that the Tory Government is having a hard time. Theresa May must be running out ...

EACH YEAR for the last five years Oxfam has produced a report on the gap between the richest individuals in the world and the poorest communities – and the news is that the gap is getting bigger. The report is published ...

UKIP Leader Henry Bolton has lost a vote of no confidence at a meeting of UKIP’s ruling body. The vote was taken because Mr Bolton’s girlfriend had tweeted a series of offensive messages. Mr Bolton has since ended the relationship. ...

HISTORY WAS MADE at the meeting of Tower Hamlets Council last night, 17th January. No one was sure if this was the very first opposition motion which Labour had agreed to debate at a Council meeting – but the debate ...