Politics

NO UK GOVERNMENT has sold off the NHS as a single entity – but recent ones have been letting the private sector take over various parts of the service. There’s a number of big problems with this piecemeal privatisation. •Private ...

LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan is comparing his record of building new homes in the capital by the record of his predecessor(s) – rather than by housing need across London. Khan has just released new figures showing that council house building ...

WORTHING has its first Muslim Bangladeshi woman councillor. The elections on 2nd May saw Labour candidate Henna Chowdhury elected to represent Gaisford ward on the 37-member Worthing Borough Council. Worthing, a sleepy town on the south coast, near Brighton, has ...

LOCAL HUMAN RIGHTS activists are working hard to remind fellow East Londoners of the struggle of the Palestinian people in the run up to the annual national demonstration in solidarity with displaced Palestinians. The demonstration, on 11th May, has been ...

THE WORLD was shocked when Gyula Remes was found unresponsive in an underpass near Westminster Tube station last December and died shortly afterwards. It was even more shocking to learn that he was the second rough sleeper to die in ...

QUEEN MARY, University of London, is one of three new “Institutes of Technology” which the Government plans to set up across the UK to act as a vocational alternative to universities. The UK has long been seen as a country ...

A UK-BASED HUMAN rights organisation, “White Pigeon International (WPI)”, has held a discussion meeting on the topic of “Local Government Election Backlash, Risk of Democracy in Bangladesh”. Speakers at the discussion meeting said that the democracy of the recent local ...

THEY BOTH stood as Labour candidates – but the two MPs in Tower Hamlets voted different Ways on Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement when the House of Commons debated the issue (again) last Friday, 29th March. •Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar ...

LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn MP has called for a General Election to be held once Theresa May stands down – so that the public can decide who is their next Prime Minister. With her authority over her Party’s MPs growing ...

A LONG JOURNEY starts with a single step – and that single step may have been taken in Greatorex Street in Tower Hamlets on Sunday night, 7th October when a number of community activists came together to discuss how to ...