Politics

KEIR STARMER has told the House of Commons why he did not know that Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting. MPs listened in an atmosphere which veered between stony indifference and incandescent outrage. At the outrage end, two MPs ...

FREE school meals for all was one of the key promises of Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration when it took office in May 2022. The policy has paid off, with 38,000 school pupils benefitting from the scheme in the last four ...

PROTESTORS took to the streets of London on Saturday to show their opposition to the far right. The march came just weeks before most of the UK will be voting in elections in local government and the devolved nations. The ...

IT’S BAD NEWS for the UK economy – again. Poor old “Rachel from Accounts” keeps trying her best, but as soon as things look like they might be on the right track, something pops up to blow the economy off ...

HOW MUCH screen time should young children enjoy? The Government has now issued new guidance on this topic – and an East London professor’s research has contributed to the findings. Professor Sam Wass, Director of the Institute for the Science ...

HOW STRANGE that US President Donald Trump is sending US ground troops to a war he has, he tells us, “already won”. On the other hand, Trump has warned that the is about to escalate the won war. Is this ...

STUPENDOUS. UNPRECEDENTED. A game changer. That’s the mainstream media’s reaction to the Green Party’s victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Are they jumping the gun? First, the result. Green Party, 14,980 (41%) Reform UK, 10,578 (29%) Labour, 9,364 (26%) ...

MAYOR LUTFUR RAHMAN began the Cabinet meeting last week – taking place during the first week of Ramadan – by extending Ramadan greetings to everyone in the Town Hall and the community. He explained how important Ramadan is to Muslims, ...

IT’S A colossal victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which has won a landslide victory in the first General Election since the 2024 uprising sent Sheikh Hasina to exile in India and her Awami League party into the political ...

IT’S NEVER easy for a political party to write its manifesto. Usually the problem is how to condense all their aspirations, all the things they want to achieve, into a short snappy statement that people will read. But when it ...