IMAGINE THE scenario. An unelected leader visits a country’s parliament – and sits in a chamber of unelected members of parliament and summons the elected representatives of the people to hear what the elected leader has sanctioned as the legislative ...
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Inde Councillors call on MPs to act on fire safety
TOWER HAMLETS Independent Group of Councillors has marked the Queen’s Speech by sending an Open Letter to the two Labour MPs in Tower Hamlets – Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Limehouse) and Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green & Bow), The Letter deals ...
Read More »CAGE Director Rabbani pleads “not guilty”
IN NOVEMBER last year, CAGE International Director Muhammad Rabbani came back to the UK from a trip overseas. As he passed through Heathrow, police took various electronic device from him – and demanded that Rabbani hand over his passwords. Rabbani ...
Read More »Finsbury Park: it’s one dead, 8 in hospital
THE FINSBURY PARK attack is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command – that indicates that the initial assessment is that this is a politically motivated and deliberate attack. The Prime Minister confirmed at approximately 5am that the ...
Read More »Muslims run over as they return from prayer
REPORTS ARE coming in that a small crowd of Muslim men in Finsbury Park have been run over by a van as they returned from Taraweh (prayers). Eyewitnesses suggest that seven brothers have been injured, three seriously – with other ...
Read More »Community united for historic anti-extremism rally
Emdad Rahman NOT IN OUR NAME! Not in our city! That was the collective slogan as a group of Muslims and non-Muslims from across London came together to participate in a silent rally at Whitechapel followed by a march to ...
Read More »Cllr Maium Miah “tower blocks – we need answers”
ISLE OF DOGS Independent Councillor Maium Miah has spent the last few days chasing landlords to provide answers on tower block safety – starting with One Housing Group, the controversial landlord which owns and manages a number of tower blocks the ...
Read More »Grenfell latest: death toll may rise to 58
THE LATEST estimate of the number of fatalities in the Grenfell Tower fire is between 58 and 70. Londoners will feel that even 58 deaths is 58 too many – but there must be some relief that the eventual figure ...
Read More »Biggs on tower safety: too little, too late?
THE GRENFELL TOWER fire took place in the early hours of 14th June. By tea-time the following day, Prime Minister Theresa May had announced there would be a full public inquiry. On the morning of 16th June, John Biggs, Executive ...
Read More »Why Muslims were the backbone of Grenfell rescues
IN THE SPACE OF just a few days, public perceptions of Muslims in the UK have gone through a sea change. Wrongly vilified for spawning the attackers of London Bridge, the community is widely acknowledged as having saved lives in ...
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