#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...

FACE COVERING measures on public transport and hospitals are only the first step says the British Medical Association (BMA). Doctors have long been campaigning for more masks – and more public information about wearing them – to help slow down ...

MANORFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL will be trialling a new method of optimising space so that children who return to school can learn and socialise while maintaining social distance. The plan comes from architects Curl la Tourelle Head, which has suggested that ...

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 ...

FORTUNATELY there are no reports of deaths or injuries after a fire broke out in flats in Hadleigh Close, E1 in the early hours of this morning, Thursday, 28th May. One man was taken to hospital as a precaution. Eighty ...

Despite the lockdown, the East London branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the Jenin Friendship Association continue to work for liberation of the Palestinian people. The PSC is currently campaigning to persuade Local Government Pension Funds to take ...

AND ONCE we have celebrated – get ready to defend their jobs. That’s the message from Tower Hamlets UNISON, which has called a virtual May Day rally to talk about the down side of fighting the Coronavirus pandemic. The Coronavirus ...

DONALD TRUMP is trying to bamboozle the world into abandoning the just claims of the Palestinian people – and it’s up to democrats across the world to protest and stop him. The next protest action in the UK is a ...

WAS TORY Home Secretary Sajid Javid within his rights to take away Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship? The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) says “yes” – leaving civil rights campaigners concerned that the judicial system is upholding a political decision. Let’s ...

IS NOW THE TIME to stop specialist modern language teaching in Tower Hamlets? The teachers and service users who came to a public meeting at the London Enterprise Academy on Saturday (25th January) said no: but one man is saying ...