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THE GOVERNMENT has begun the New Year by announcing the 30 areas where it is going to build the first wave of its “starter homes”. The homes will be put on sale to first time buyers aged between 23 and ...

ONE DAY into the New Year – and Jeremy Corbyn’s critics are already having a go. This time they are using Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite, the UK’s largest union, to attack the Labour Leader. The whole saga will come ...

Thirty-nine people lost their lives in Istanbul as a terrorist began shooting at random in a Turkish nightclub just minutes into the New Year. As European countries laid on unprecedented levels of security following threats that ISIS/Daesh were aiming to ...

The Tories are still obsessed with the myth that electoral fraud is rife in areas with a high number of black and Asian voters. As Tower Hamlets has shown time and again, the number of stories about possible or pretend ...

The UK economy’s report card for 2016 reads “has made some progress, but could do better”. It has done well in terms of stock market performance and house prices – but these measures do not guarantee long term security or ...

Black and Asian Muslim youngsters, particularly young women, “do worse for jobs”, even though it is white boys from poor families who “do worse” in school. The finding comes from the Social Mobility Commission – an independent but official body. ...

Lawyers representing up to 28 child refugees hope to be in the High Court next week, asking for the Home Secretary to explain why she has not granted them asylum in the UK. The case rests on a point of ...

As the UK’s top GP warned that GP services are the latest part of the NHS to reach crisis point, concerns are growing that the Conservative Government is losing its grip on this flagship public service. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt ...

Donald Trump has passed another hurdle in his journey to become US President. The popular vote held across the federation on 8th November was not a direct election. The 120 million voters elected their own State’s delegates to an electoral ...

Labour’s John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has commented on the death of Bow School pupil Nasar Ali. Nasar was taken ill at school on Thursday, 10th November and passed away in the Royal London Hospital on Monday, 14th November. ...