CRASH! Late last night – Saturday, 14th July – the news broke. Abjol Miah has joined the Liberal-Democrats! This is Bastille Day – the day, in 1789, when the people stormed the Bastille prison, attempting to release political prisoners. This ...

Are we facing another summer snap General Election? And if we are, can Corbyn win it? It had all been going so well for Prime Minister Theresa May. Last Friday, she held a Cabinet “away-day”. The elected wing of the ...

JOHN BIGGS HAS backed down in the face of a campaign by Unite the Union and agreed that young people working in Council leisure facilities run by GLL should receive he full London Living Wage (LLL) – but he hasn’t ...

HOME SECRETARY Amber Rudd has resigned – after Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party called on her to go. Rudd had denied knowing that the Home Office set targets for how many people should be deported – a strategy which may have led ...

NO SOONER had the Chancellor given a glowing account of the economy in his Spring statement than Toys R Us announced it was going into administration with the loss of 3,000 jobs. Since then there have been further announcements of ...

FAILED LABOUR LEADERSHIP contender Owen Smith MP has reminded us how uninspiring he was as a candidate – and what a lacklustre Labour Leader he would have made. As the candidate chosen by Labour’s right wing to mount an “anyone ...

LOOK DOWN ANY High Street and you’ll see enough places to eat or take food away that you will be asking yourself, “does nobody cook any more?” All that may be set to change, as restaurants start to admit they ...

PATH took another step forward this week, as the Electoral Commission approved its application to register as a political party. The People’s Alliance of Tower Hamlets (PATH) is now on the Great Britain register of political parties in England. PATH ...

NEARLY TWO years ago, in March 2016, the UK Government suspended direct cargo flights to the UK, claiming that their decision was based on “security” reasons. Now the ban has been lifted. When the ban first came in, the Bangladeshi ...

WHY SHOULD we worry? The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced that a percentage of people who bought their homes on interest only mortgages are likely to have problems paying off their mortgages. Why does this matter to everyone – ...