Politics

OVER THE last five years, child poverty in Tower Hamlets has increased by just over 5,000 – that’s around an extra 20 children a week, nearly three children a day, living in families that just can’t make ends meet. During ...

IF UK DEMOCRACY is a shining example for the rest of the world to follow, then someone needs to help the rest of the world.  Two institutions crucial to the functioning of a democratic society have been found wanting today: ...

IT’S A HISTORIC deal – apparently. The Finance Ministers of the G7, meeting in London, have agreed a new system for taxing multinational companies.  They are hoping this new system will provide a cash windfall for governments which have borrowed ...

SEVERAL GROUPS have joined together to organise protests at and about the G7 summit which is to be held in Cornwall next weekend. One of the main issues protestors wish to raise is the G7 countries’ support for the Israeli ...

IT IS 32 years since the world witnessed the might of the Chinese regime crush the democracy demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. And a solidarity movement across the globe vowed, “June 4th – we shall never forget”. Today a ...

CLLR MUMTAZ KHAN was elected to Newham Council in 2018 as a Labour councillor representing Green Street West ward. At this year’s AGM, Cllr Khan was selected as the Deputy Chair of Newham Council. She will work with the Chair ...

JOHN BIGGS has been at it again – closing down facilities which serve some of the most vulnerable members of the community in Tower Hamlets.  It is a move which saw users of Council day care centres stage a public ...

ANOTHER CHAPTER in the long running dispute between cab service Uber and the British state ended today, as the Supreme Court ruled that Uber drivers – at least, the two who brought the test case – are workers. The saga ...

WHY DID THE UK BAME community suffer disproportionately from the Covid pandemic? Because institutional racism in UK society let BAME people live in overcrowded conditions and take the lowest grade jobs. Why did the Black Lives Matter movement protest so ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council is holding a “live virtual discussion and Q&A session”, starting at 7pm on Wednesday, 17th February. The Council says that this is an opportunity to “ask Mayor John Biggs and a panel of health experts about Covid-19 ...