The 2012 Olympics held in East London were supposed to leave a legacy for Londoners who shelled out on developing the Stratford site where the Games were held. East Londoners were hoping that the Athletes Village would, after minor conversion, ...
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Lutfur Rahman: is it time for a fair hearing?
On 23rd April – St George’s Day – last year, the first directly-elected Muslim mayor, Lutfur Rahman, a man who had won two boroughwide elections in Tower Hamlets, was dismissed from office at the stroke of a pen from a ...
Read More »Breaking news: Lutfur Rahman wins right to appeal “spiritual influence”
Lutfur Rahman’s lawyers attended the High Court today to ask the Court for permission to apply for a Judicial Review into the Election Court’s ruling earlier this year that Lutfur Rahman should be removed from office. They were granted permission ...
Read More »You can snub a Muslim in any language…
David Cameron has announced that Muslim men and women who come to the UK on a five year spousal visa to join their wife or husband will, half way through the visa, have to prove that their English is improving ...
Read More »Is this the sound of breaking China?
China sneezes: will the world catch a cold? This could be – and is – a phrase being used today to headline articles about China’s admission that its annual economic growth has sunk below 7%. It was also a headline ...
Read More »Did polls help bring in the Tories?
As voters trudged to polling stations on 7th May 2015, they knew they were participating in the UK’s largest exercise in practical democracy by freely casting their vote for the political party of their choice. Now it seems that they ...
Read More »David Bowie dies; music of a legend lives on
The death has been announced of David Bowie, one of the giants of music who first found fame in the 1970s. It has been revealed that he had been living with cancer for 18 months. The shock is all the ...
Read More »Rose Hamid: sister, you nailed it!
“One guy was saying, ‘Get out! Do you have a bomb?’ And I said, ‘No – do you have a bomb?’” In the footsteps of the First Lady of Civil Rights Rosa Parks now walks another Rose – Rose Hamid, ...
Read More »Biggs slaps “austerity tax” on Tower Hamlets voters
Labour’s John Biggs has balanced his budget – by getting local residents to dig into their pockets to make up the shortfall. Gone is Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s cast iron pledge protect the most vulnerable in our community – replaced with ...
Read More »Bangladesh earthquake: further reports arrive
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred at approximately 5am on the morning of 3rd January. The epicentre was near Imphal, the capital of that Manipur state of India, just to the east of Bangladesh – about 200 miles from Dhaka. The ...
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