We will be pretending the first three months of the year did not happen due to…
Year: 2020
Runnymede Trust CEO accuses government of pursuing ‘white nationalist’ agenda
Bethnal Green-based Runnymede Trust CEO Dr. Halima Begum accuses government of pursuing 'white nationalist' agenda.
Wapping Squirrels to Guest Edit Radio 4 Today
The Wapping Squirrels are guest editing the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. EEE had exclusive access…
Channel 4 News report keeps Aspen Court Covid-19 deaths in public eye
Channel 4 News reporter Fatima Manji casts a light on the many Covid-19 deaths in Aspen…
Poplar man, convicted terrorist, caught in £200,000 Rohingya Muslim swindle
Convicted terrorist caught swindling the public out of £200k that he and accomplice claimed was to…
Seventh major review of Youth Services in eight years announced
Tower Hamlets Youth Services is undergoing the seventh major review of how it operates in eight…
New Chinese Embassy plans plagued by Black Death burial pits
Plans for a new UK Chinese Embassy will have to accommodate archaeological excavation of bubonic plague…
Delay publishing Payments to Suppliers data shows ineptitude of LBTH
Payments to Suppliers data has not been published by Tower Hamlets Council since May 2020. Why…
Liveable Streets disability consultation sham exposed
An investigation has raised concerns over the validity of the Equality Impact Assessments of the Liveable…
Apsana Begum MP pleads not guilty to housing fraud charges
Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today and pleaded not…
What’s in a name? Ward name changes proposed & LIF spending suggestions
Ward name changes proposed and suggestions for how to spend LIF funds. How exciting.
COVID Winter Grant Scheme to support vulnerable households
The DWP has announced details of a £170 million COVID Winter Grant Scheme for local authorities…
Borough cop used marked police car to steal drugs cash
A PC based in the Tower Hamlets and Hackney Borough Command Unit (BCU) has been dismissed…
Whatever the result of the Mayoral referendum, democracy will lose
It is convenient for many politicians to forget that Lutfur Rahman and John Biggs are two…
Liveable Streets Bow report approved by Cabinet
Main event of last night's Cabinet meeting was to make a decision on the Liveable Streets…
Attempt to ram through Liveable Streets Bow decision today
Mayor Biggs Cabinet will today attempt to get approval for the Liveable Streets Bow decision through…
Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part One
Whatever is going on inside the Council at the moment it is very messy indeed.
Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part Three
Quite what went on with the transfer of Poplar HARCA housing stock to the Council is…
Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part Two
In a more recent Audit Committee meeting there is reference to all sorts of stuff that…
Row over new Chinese Embassy in Tower Hamlets escalates
Chinese Ambassador is none too pleased with Tower Hamlets residents as row over building the new…
UK Youth Fund Covid relief grants for youth organisations
Youth organisations with an income of under £250,000 can apply for grants of up to £50,000…
Move Watney Track & Trace to St. George’s Town Hall
At Council tomorrow night a petition will be heard to move the Covid-19 Test & Trace…
Campaign to keep St George’s swimming pool open for everyone
Amanda Day of the Wapping-based Turks Head charity needs you to sign the petition to ensure…
Hard up LBTH has no idea where £112m Covid-19 cash went
Whitehall has given £112m Covid-19 relief funding to Tower Hamlets council. A FOI response shows the…
Referendum: Wood, Khan, Golds highlight ‘flaws’ in Labour proposal
Opposition councillors Andrew Wood, Rabina Khan and Peter Golds will propose a motion at Council to…
Secret meeting of General Purposes Committee to be held today
Later today, Friday 13th November, there is an Extraordinary General Purposes Committee meeting at 2pm. Anyone…
Lutfur Rahman is back and on the Mayoral campaign trail
To the surprise of nobody ever Lutfur Rahman has announced his candidacy to be the next…
Lutfur Rahman Fan Club holds its first (secret) meeting
Tower Hamlets Labour Party 'group' met in secret on Monday evening and did exactly what Mayor…
Tower Hamlets plans to close all borough Idea Stores & libraries
Tower Hamlets is planning to close all borough Idea Stores and libraries generate up to £40…
For Tower Hamlets to prosper the elected Mayor role must go
A Labour Party meeting this evening will discuss the attempt to reintroduce democracy to the borough…
Budget Consultation highlights Idea Store visits but that’s it
Tower Hamlets Council has launched its Budget consultation exercise for a year in the future but…
Cllr. Puru Miah reports Mayor Biggs & Cllr. Brady to the cops
Even by Rotten Boroughs standards Tower Hamlets has excelled itself this week with two quite extraordinary…
Biggs quietly delegates Directly-Elected Mayor powers to Cabinet
At Cabinet last week Mayor Biggs mentioned that he had delegated his Directly-Elected Mayor powers to…
Let us decide to make the cost of corruption too expensive
Ten years of being subject to the whims of two Directly-Elected Mayors, first Rahman, now Biggs,…
The Government has gagged the NHS. The media needs NHS staff to speak out.
What do you think? This lockdown same as the last one? Tier-4 just another inconvenience? A…