Five Tower Hamlets councillors have been threatened with explusion from the Labour Party – and have hit back by asking whether the Labour Party is institutionally racist.

Prometheus Prometheus is director Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction – and co-writer Damon Lindelof’s return to the kind of big, heady themes he explored for six seasons of his landmark TV show Lost. It’s a natural pairing, and one ...

A tougher approach to the way those convicted of dangerous dog offences are treated by the courts is contained in new guidelines from the Sentencing Council published earlier this month.  In recent years, there have been increasing numbers of convictions ...

We understand that the confidential part of the Council agenda on 16th May ended in uproar, with the police being called in

Surely there is not another Borough in England where those who have lost an election cry “fraud” more often.

East London News:  You can read ELN’s story about the anonymous leaflet circulated just before polling day – making accusations about Spitalfields & Banglatown by-election candidate Gulam Robbani and about Mayor Lutfur Rahman – here: http://www.eastlondonnews.com/gutter-tactics-depress-robbani-vote-in-spitalfields/. We said that we’d be ...

Just a couple of weeks ago, War on Want hosted a tour of Bangladeshi trade union organisers

"I helplessly watched frantic scenes of children and adults who were attending a football match as they lay injured and dying.”

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

  To sign this petition, visit http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29410.  From the London Guantánamo Campaign: 14th February marked the tenth anniversary of the detention without charge or trial of Shaker Aamer, the last Londoner held in Guantánamo Bay. To mark this anniversary, Shaker’s ...