Politics

  Eric Pickles has sent inspectors into Tower Hamlets: but Mayor Lutfur Rahman has invited him to visit the Borough and see what’s going on for himself. Mayor Rahman’s invitation came after former Labour Group Leader Councillor Joshua Peck appeared ...

Irate taxpayers were today calling for an investigation into Community Secretary Eric Pickles,

It wouldn't be the first time the local Labour Party's dropped its own official candidate, so there was more interest than surprise yesterday, when the Party's official Twitter account

With the New Year, the minds of the Borough’s politicians are beginning to be concentrated on setting out their stalls for the forthcoming elections in May. But has Labour’s campaign stalled even before it’s begun?

The Government has been pumping public money into subsidising home buyers to keep house prices high and protect the economy. According to the Halifax, the policy may be working. It has been running a “Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker” for ...

We’d like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year. It would be traditional to wish you health, wealth and happiness – but

So there’s this company learndirect, and it says it’s a “a truly national provider […] with 400 delivery locations”, which apparently gives it

In the old days, the UK had a taxation system: corporations handed a set percentage of their profits over to the state each year, and elected politicians spent the money in accordance with the priorities their party had won the ...

The empty slogans trip off the tongue: it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt of austerity… women suffer disproportionately from the cuts…

One of the dangers of letting political parties have conferences is that you have to put up with