Politics

If you want to vote in the elections for London Mayor on 5th May, you must be on the electoral register – and 18th April is your deadline for joining the register if you are not already on it. If ...

When the Cabinet system was first introduced, a council’s “overview and scrutiny” committee was intended to scrutinise, closely, the work of the executive – providing some sort of reassurance to the wider Council. Councillors were given “call in” powers, by ...

Heard the one about the immigrants taking “our” jobs? It’s one of those water cooler topics, something to chat about at work. The immediate answer is, “Which jobs have they taken? Because they haven’t taken your job, have they?” Still ...

As successive Governments have cut the state pension as part of their austerity policies, they have been left with the dilemma of how to cope with the inequalities such cuts build into society. Cuts to the state pension have not ...

Happy International Women’s Day! Celebrate by watching a young woman of Asian heritage who knows her stuff (Shami Chakrabarti) destroy a Tory Government Minister who has been trying to pull the wool over our eyes. [Adverts]

London Mayor Boris Johnson is doing his best to plug the gap left by government cuts in local authority funding – by inviting service users to pay for their services direct. He has found £730,000 which he will use to ...

Labour’s John Biggs promised that he would be accountable to his electors and he’s making a start by coming out from the Town Hall to meet the public at sessions he has called the “Mayoral Assembly”. The Assembly is timed ...

Taysir Mahmud, Editor of the Weekly Desh, which is published in London, asks if is a free and fair election is possible in Bangladesh without a caretaker government. Last April I went to Bangladesh as my father suddenly passed away. I ...

On 23rd April – St George’s Day – last year, the first directly-elected Muslim mayor, Lutfur Rahman, a man who had won two boroughwide elections in Tower Hamlets, was dismissed from office at the stroke of a pen from a ...

Lutfur Rahman’s lawyers attended the High Court today to ask the Court for permission to apply for a Judicial Review into the Election Court’s ruling earlier this year that Lutfur Rahman should be removed from office. They were granted permission ...