East London News:  There were not just one but in fact two protest lobbies outside the Town Hall before the meeting of Tower Hamlets Cabinet on 4th April. In Tower Hamlets, we are used to politicians rushing forwards into the ...

Tower Hamlets Labour Party bosses have stopped dithering and have rushed through

ELN: The local press would not have to mention former councillor Michael Keith so often if

Emdad Rahman: The organisers of the London Triathlon are facing a massive fine after a pensioner was killed while crossing the track. A pedalling cyclist crashed into 67 year old Alhaj Jain Ullah as he was walking on a supervised ...

Galloway’s success in Bradford West was spectacular – and no political party can deny it. But if they can’t deny it, they are at a loss

East London News: The shadow of George Galloway’s by-election victory in Bradford West is hanging over the Weavers by-election in Tower Hamlets.

Reaction to Galloway’s election from Toby Perkins, Labour MP for Chesterfield Appearing on Sky News immediately after the declaration of the vote, Toby Perkins MP was asked what had gone wrong for the Labour Party.  He replied that the people ...

George Galloway has done it again. The man who beat Oona King in Bethnal Green at the 2005 General Election has won a spectacular by-election victory

ELN: The surprise news that Labour councillor Anna Lynch has resigned her seat in Weavers ward leaves Tower Hamlets

There was a time when Mayor Lutfur Rahman was painted as a young firebrand. At Cabinet on 14th March, Lutfur deployed a new tool in his armoury. No one saw it coming but, put simply, he