Politics

PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has admitted that there is a problem with funding higher education in the UK. She has decisively announced that she is going to think about it for a year or so and wonder what to do. ...

WHEN LABOUR PARTY supporters elected Jeremy Corbyn as their Leader, many were looking forward to an era of fairer funding – with money being allocated according to need. They are going to have to wait a while in London. Although ...

IT WAS CURTAINS for UKIP Leader Henry Bolton today after 63% of UKIP members backed a “no confidence” motion. The vote took place at an extraordinary general meeting in Birmingham. The decision came after Mr Bolton’s girlfriend was found to ...

SIR ROBIN WALES, Mayor of Newham, has not been automatically selected to be Labour’s mayoral candidate in the election on 3rd May. The Party will now hold an open selection contest to choose their candidate. It is tempting to assume ...

THERE’S NO need to stockpile groceries just yet, but there’s always cause for concern about how the world’s economic system is functioning – especially for the poorest across the globe. The present jitters began on Monday on Wall Street – ...

THE NUMBER OF people who have lost their jobs as a result of the Carillion collapse is creeping up towards 1,000. Carillion went into liquidation on 15th January, revealing that the company had been juggling debt for a very long ...

JOHN BIGGS had a busy evening last week, on the fourth Thursday of the month. By the time he reached Newham to attend a charity dinner in aid of combating acid attacks, he had been to three other meetings already ...

TOWER HAMLETS Labour Party members were out on the streets of central London today – with thousands of others, marching to show their support for the NHS. They were protesting on the day the Tories came up with another cover ...

SIR ROBIN WALES, Mayor of Newham, is reported to be fighting for his political life as he goes through a Labour Party “trigger ballot” to determine whether he will be Labour’s candidate for mayor at this May’s elections. In most ...

WHY SHOULD we worry? The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that a percentage of people who bought their homes on interest only mortgages are likely to have problems paying off their mortgages. Why does this matter to everyone – ...