Politics

OVER HALF A year ago, the late John Lennon sparked controversy by telling the press that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” – a remark that erupted, on their arrival in the USA some five months later, into the ...

THROUGHOUT the month of July, our “thought for the day” spot featured individual Tower Hamlets Councillors – recording something they have said and giving their apparent position on the Tower Rewards dispute with the Council workforce. Now the month is ...

THE 75TH anniversary of Hiroshima Day took place this week – on 6th August. Up to a quarter of a million people died as a result of two nuclear bombs which the US dropped on Japan in the Second World ...

TOWER HAMLETS Unison has announced three more days of strike action as they fight to convince disgraced Executive Mayor John Biggs that reducing Council workers’ terms and conditions is not the way to balance the budget. The strikes will be ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has announced that the terms and conditions of its parking scheme are to change from 1st September. The changes were “announced” on the Council website – apparently without any consultation. The Government by Stealth approach immediately prompted ...

JOHN “NO MATES” BIGGS is becoming increasingly isolated as he tries to justify imposing new, worse terms and conditions on the Council workforce – despite trade union members voting consistently against the changes. While Councillors are not queueing up to support ...

Marks & Spencer is the latest major retailer to announce job losses in the wake of falling sales over the Coronavirus lockdown. Nearly 1,000 jobs are due to go, mostly in store management and head office. The job cuts are ...

DAVE PRENTIS, General Secretary of Unison, has made it quite clear why he believes that Executive Mayor John Biggs – and the majority of the Labour Councillors – are wrong to impose the Tower Rewards contracts on the Council workforce. ...

DAVID may well have found a way to beat Goliath, but no one is laying odds that Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs will succeed in defeating one of the UK’s largest trade unions in the Tower Rewards saga. On ...

THE COURT OF APPEAL has today ruled that Shamima Begum should be permitted to return to the UK to contest the UK Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship. The Government has responded to today’s Court of Appeal decision by ...