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Hira Islam and the IFE get their sexist payback from Lutfur 3 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
It is surely a coincidence of almighty proportions that within months of bagging a £10,000 grant from the “Mayor’s Community Chest” fund, the Tower Hamlets Council of Mosques has been able to produce ...
Olympic Stadium wrap: chopped up by Dow for flooring (and how this blog starred in Wikileaks) 22 Jul 2013 | 12:48 am
Longer term readers of this blog will remember that I spent quite a bit if time in 2011 and at the start of last year investigating and reporting on Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the Olympic Games. I...
Lutfur v Sir Robin Wales: attitudes to filming councils 17 Jul 2013 | 11:35 pm
There’s a great piece today on the Newham Recorder wesbite, which is so good in fact, I’m going to nick it and post it here. It builds on the debate started on this blog about the filming of Tower Ha...
Dan McCurry goes potty over pots ban – health and safety gone mad 15 Jul 2013 | 12:03 am
Given the person quoted, I thought regular readers would like this story in today’s Sunday Express. I wrote it before today’s fire at a tower block in in Bromley-by-Bow in which thankfully no one was...
Lutfur’s political boasts for Ramadan – and a new friendship with Len McCluskey 12 Jul 2013 | 03:06 am
It’s Ramadan, so belated best wishes to all readers of this blog who are fasting. I’m told it’s gruelling but also incredibly fulfilling. Some are also intent on making it politically fulfilling. You...
John Biggs begins to reveal strategy to hurt Lutfur 5 Jul 2013 | 05:04 pm
Just a quick post to publish a press release sent by the Tower Hamlets Labour group regarding the filming of council meetings. They express sympathy with John Wright who was quickly surrounded by the...
Gig promoter Cllr Shahed Ali tells Victoria Park residents to move house if they don’t like noise 5 Jul 2013 | 03:33 am
I’d left by the time of this little outburst at last week’s full Tower Hamlets council meeting. It would have been nice to have posted a video of it, but the council has of course banned such transpar...
Video: the moment a Tower Hamlets resident is told to stop filming council meeting 29 Jun 2013 | 03:51 am
This is the moment 71-year-old Tower Hamlets Alzheimer’s ambassador John Wright was asked to stop filming a segment of last Wednesday’s full council meeting. It demonstrates the confusion caused by E...
Labour response to Lutfur’s £3m faith grants (and a mosque says an Italian deli causes violence and racism in Shoreditch) 26 Jun 2013 | 10:07 pm
Mayor Lutfur’s decision to commit £3million of council money to paint domes, polish signs and refurbish faith-based community centres has caused a bit of a stink within the Labour party. Many members...
Tower Hamlets tells Eric Pickles he’s wrong: the public CAN’T film its meetings 26 Jun 2013 | 07:53 pm
A fortnight ago, Roy Greenslade, the Guardian’s media commentator and professor of journalism at City University, reported here the view of Communities Secretary Eric Pickles that members of the publi...
