Tag: tower hamlets
Feature: Where Are the Shadwell Fire Survivors Supposed to Go?
by Rivkah Brown
Feature: London Asylum Seekers Are Refusing to Be Flung Around the Country by Profit-Seeking Private Companies
by Charlotte England
Report: A Domestic Violence Expert Warned Keir Starmer That Labour Was Complicit in Apsana Begum’s ‘Abuse’. He Did Nothing
by Rivkah Brown
Downstream: An Era-Defining Political Comeback—Aaron Bastani Meets Lutfur Rahman
In the 2022 local elections, something unprecedented happened in Tower Hamlets, a borough in East London. Not only did the constituents elect a mayor previously banned from taking part in politics, but that candiate’s party, Aspire, took the council from Labour. Aaron Bastani speaks to Lutfur Rahman, the new mayor of Tower Hamlets.
Feature: A Labour Council Just Greenlit the Social Cleansing of Bangladeshi Brick Lane
by Maliha Reza
Opinion: Labour’s Silence on Apsana Begum Shows How Morally Bankrupt the Party Has Become
by Joshua Kelly and Sam Green
Labour’s near-total silence on Apsana Begum's case suggests the party cares more about its factional alignments than supporting a young survivor of domestic abuse.