BY ANY STANDARD, the Weavers ward by-election on 12th August was a tremendous victory for Kabir Ahmed and Aspire.  Executive Mayor John Biggs doesn’t like losing – and scenes as the Count hinted at what is to come over the ...

PUBLIC CONCERN is growing over the plans to develop the former gas works site on Bow Common Lane. These are due to be considered by the Tower Hamlets Council’s Strategic Development Committee (SDC) this week. The planning application was considered ...

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). ...

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 ...

JOHN BIGGS has displayed the consistency of Boris Johnson explaining the relaxation of lockdown rules as he presides over the first boroughwide strike of Tower Hamlets Council workers in living memory.   All we need is for Matt Lucas to ...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS Executive Mayor John Biggs’s failure to provide an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) of the new pay package and terms and conditions changes known as “Tower Rewards” to unions or the press. The concern now is that Labour Councillors, ...

IT’S NOT JUST our working and social lives that came to a halt when the Lockdown was announced. For young people from three to 18, their worlds shrank as schools closed and they were sent home. Is it time for ...

IT WAS A cold evening in Tower Hamlets, but plenty of warmth was generated outside the Town Hall as supporters of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) lobbied the Council last week, hoping to secure free speech on Palestine. Last year ...

JOHN BIGGS, veteran politician and Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has stopped short of endorsing Apsana Begum – chosen by Tower Hamlets Labour Party members to be Labour’s candidate at the next General Election. Members had been patient with some ...

SUPPORT FOR vulnerable adults in Tower Hamlets is again being reduced as Executive Mayor John Biggs wields the axe on Meals on Wheels. It is understood that the service will end just before the end of the financial year, in ...