Politics

THE STARMER Government is planning to reduce public expenditure by cutting welfare benefits and restricting the number of people who can apply or them. This has come as a surprise to quite a number of Labour MPs, and some members, ...

WE ALL KNOW that Nigel Farage was tempted out of retirement and back into politics. We all know that he led Reform to a good result at the 2024 General Election – and had a breakthrough in the May 2025 ...

LABOUR MP Tulip Siddiq was one of more than 50 people named in an arrest warrant issued in Bangladesh. The warrant was drawn up by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The ACC has been investigating allegations made against Bangladesh’s deposed Prime ...

ON 1ST APRIL, Tower Hamlets Council was 60 years old. On 19th February, Eastenders – the popular BBC soap opera set in roughly the same area, had celebated its 40th birthday. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the two apart. Those ...

TWO DEMONSTRATIONS are being held this week in support of striking workers who clean British Airways offices – and receive the legal minimum in pay. British Airways have offices at Heathrow, and they employ OCS, a facilities services firm, to ...

REDBRIDGE LABOUR Councillor Sam Gould, who represented Hainult ward, has resigned from the Council – after admitting two counts of indecent exposure at a hearing at Barkingside Magistrates Court last week. Gould, from Hornchurch, had earlier been sacked from his ...

A “PEOPLE’S BUDGET” has been passed by Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday, 26th February, after nearly three hours of debate. This was the third budget proposed by Mayor Lutfur Rahman since he was elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, for the ...

WORKERS in the Rapid Response Team at Guy’s & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust are going on strike from Monday, 24th February over concerns about how the staff are treated. Unite the Union claim that management’s responses do not meet ...

ALL NHS worker were “heroes” during the Covid pandemic – and we stood on our doorsteps and clapped to prove it. Among the heroic teams were the staff who dealt with infection control. These workers dive in to parts of ...

ALL COUNCILS are equal – but, under Starmer’s Labour Government, some are more equal than others. The cash-strapped Government that had to axe the Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners has found funds for a selective cash bailout to some failing ...