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 – ...
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Row breaks out over student funding
THERESA MAY announced a major review of how universities – and the undergraduate students they teach – are funded. The Labour Party is ready with its criticisms of current government policy – but a leading Tory has rushed into the controversy too. ...
Read More »Rushanara signs EDM on Palestinian children’s rights
TWO LABOUR MPs in Tower Hamlets have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling on Israel to stop holding Palestinian children in military detention – but campaigners are asking why it has taken Rushanara Ali two months to add her ...
Read More »Corbyn sticks to script amid Tory disarray
IF YOU’RE IN A HOLE, stop digging. That’s a phrase the Tories seem to have forgotten this month as squabbling Ministers make it every plainer that the Tory Government is having a hard time. Theresa May must be running out ...
Read More »Top Tories are squabbling again
IS IT TURNING into UKIP? Tory Party members must be wondering whether they have woken up in another party, as leading Tories in the Government are squabbling with each other in a way we usually only see in UKIP. The ...
Read More »Biggs hosts festival of wishful thinking
IT WAS FOUR HOURS OF talking, vision and passion – and no discussion of how to keep basic services going under the Tory Government’s austerity regime. That was the “partnership summit” last week. The event brought the public, private and ...
Read More »ARTA launches nominations in House of Lords
NOMINATIONS FOR THE first Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Awards (ARTA) opened last week at the House of Lords, with various dignitaries, many of Asian heritage, present to show their support. The launch was hosted by former Tower Hamlets councillor – ...
Read More »One in ten are leaving nursing
THE HEAD OF THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Janet Davies, has called on the Government to “lift the NHS out of this dangerous and downward spiral.” She was referring to information received by the BBC which shows that thousands ...
Read More »Inflation down to 3% – hold the party
INFLATION CAME DOWN to 3% in December, according to figures just released by the Office of National Statistics. It could be worse – but this is not enough to see Theresa May dancing a jig in her Downing Street office. ...
Read More »Fish Island bridges: Biggs anti, Sadiq unmoved
CAMPAIGNERS TRYING to stop London Mayor Sadiq Khan vandalising Fish Island by permitting a new road bridge to be built and a wharf to be demolished are having a publicity day on Tuesday, 16th January. Activists from the Save the ...
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