SUPPORTING the “Black Lives Matter” movement is not just a case of saying you support it, or going on a march to show you do, or signing a petition to say that police officers should stop killing black people in ...

AS THE Prime Minister and his Cabinet announce apparently random easings of the Lockdown in England, usually leaving the public in ever greater confusion, London’s doctors have expressed their concern about whether they could cope with a second wave of ...

STANDING IN THE heart of Shadwell, the ward she represents, Cllr Rabina Khan called for the Bangladeshi community to be included in formulating a response to the COVID pandemic which has affected them so badly. Cllr Khan was speaking on ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council is asking residents to complete an online questionnaire detailing how the Coronavirus pandemic has been affecting them, to help it plan services.   Strangely, residents have to sign in on the Council website before they can view ...

THE PANDEMIC is not over – and as countries struggle to cope with the situation at home, there are worrying signs that the US, and perhaps some allies, may respond to the pressure with bellicose statements. The Stop the War ...

Afzal Sayed Munna SUSTAINABILITY is a lifestyle designed for permanence (Turner, 2010). Sustainability is a comparatively simpler idea, which can be explained in purely descriptive terms as the capacity of any given system to exist and reproduce on a long-term ...

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WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. Perhaps we need to look back at the Very ...

ISLAMIC RELIEF has thanked Muslims across the world for following Ramadan guidelines on social distances – and warned them to continue as Eid approaches. Even if the rate of increase in the number of infections is coming down, new people ...

WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. Here’s a basic statement of case from East London ...