Politics

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 ...

THURSDAY, 6th May is the date on which elections for the positions of London Mayor and Members of the Greater London Assembly will be held – one year after they were due to take place and postponed by the Covid ...

LUTFUR RAHMAN, former Directly Elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has spoken out to support the borough’s libraries and Ideas Stores – the latest service under threat of closure by Tower Hamlets Council. Lutfur Rahman posted a statement on his Facebook ...

Tom Zagoria, a member of the Labour Homelessness Campaign, looks at the developing humanitarian crisis among the homeless. AS THE UK goes back into lockdown in the cold winter months, campaigners are warning that the Government’s refusal to fund a ...

The sudden lockdown – and the U-turn on closing schools – has revealed government failings on planning and logistics once again.  Unless they act quickly, some children will be left behind. When the first lockdown began last year, the Government ...

AS THE SECOND wave of COVID-19 sweeps the country, concerns have been raised over whether one of East London’s major hospitals is coping with COVID-19-related admissions. On 29th December, the Barts Health NHS Trust announced that its hospitals were treating ...

AS THE WORLD heads into a new year, the Coronavirus pandemic is not the only threat to our health and wellbeing. In many countries across the world, war rages on – or, even if a war has officially ended, populations ...

ONCE AGAIN, John Biggs and the Labour Group handraisers are cutting services to the borough’s most vulnerable citizens. This time it’s not just children in general who are in his sights: it’s children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). ...

KHALED NOOR looks back over the Brexit process and provides a brief analysis of the Post-Brexit Trade Deal. ●Khaled Noor is a Barrister (N/P) and Solicitor. He is also a columnist, campaigner, and a Councillor in the London Borough of ...