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Report: A Government ‘Best Value’ Inspection of Tower Hamlets Council Turned Out to Be Very Bad Value

Rivkah Brown

Michael Gove signed off on paying inspectors more than £1,000 a day to make sure Tower Hamlets council was spending money well. Ironically, their enquiry is now more than £130,000 over budget, Novara Media can reveal.

Report: ‘It’s a Scandal’: How Property Developers Failed to Sell a Single Flat in Balfron Tower

Ella Jessel

Social tenants were ‘decanted’ from the iconic east London tower block so their flats could be sold for profit. Now nobody wants to buy them.

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Feature: Where Are the Shadwell Fire Survivors Supposed to Go?

Rivkah Brown

Two months after their state-sanctioned slum burned down, killing one of their housemates, six of the Tower Hamlets fire survivors remain homeless. Rivkah Brown reports.

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Feature: London Asylum Seekers Are Refusing to Be Flung Around the Country by Profit-Seeking Private Companies

Charlotte England

Exclusive: A second group of asylum seekers is resisting removal out of London, to isolated hotels threatened by the far right.

Apsana Begum MP, wearing a blue headscarf and sunglasses, with her face mask pulled down, speaks into a loudhailer

Report: A Domestic Violence Expert Warned Keir Starmer That Labour Was Complicit in Apsana Begum’s ‘Abuse’. He Did Nothing

Rivkah Brown

Exclusive: A domestic violence expert begged Keir Starmer to save Apsana Begum from a trigger ballot process she described as an ‘extension of [her] abuse’. The Labour leader let it continue. Rivkah Brown reports.

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.

A parade of people processes through the streets of Brick Lane carrying banners and signs. One readable at the front says 'Save Banglatown'

Feature: A Labour Council Just Greenlit the Social Cleansing of Bangladeshi Brick Lane

Maliha Reza

The Truman Brewery development, waved through by two Labour councillors earlier this month, will further erode the Bangladeshi and Bengali communities’ relationship with the party, writes Maliha Reza.

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Opinion: Labour’s Silence on Apsana Begum Shows How Morally Bankrupt the Party Has Become

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.

Plenty of people think mothers shouldn’t be in politics. Does that include Tower Hamlets Labour?

Charlotte Gerada

Emotions have been running high in the re-run of the Tower Hamlets mayoral election. Fresh tensions have now emerged over hustings missed by Rabina Khan, an independent candidate formerly of Tower Hamlets First, with a prominent Labour member questioning her ability to be a mayor and mother simultaneously.

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Report: A Government ‘Best Value’ Inspection of Tower Hamlets Council Turned Out to Be Very Bad Value

Rivkah Brown

Feature: London Asylum Seekers Are Refusing to Be Flung Around the Country by Profit-Seeking Private Companies

Charlotte England

Report: A Domestic Violence Expert Warned Keir Starmer That Labour Was Complicit in Apsana Begum’s ‘Abuse’. He Did Nothing

Rivkah Brown

Downstream: An Era-Defining Political Comeback—Aaron Bastani Meets Lutfur Rahman

Opinion: Labour’s Silence on Apsana Begum Shows How Morally Bankrupt the Party Has Become

Joshua Kelly and Sam Green

Plenty of people think mothers shouldn’t be in politics. Does that include Tower Hamlets Labour?

Charlotte Gerada

Interview: Interview: Rabina Khan

Social Cleansing in Tower Hamlets: Interview with Balfron Tower Evictee

James Butler

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Report: A Government ‘Best Value’ Inspection of Tower Hamlets Council Turned Out to Be Very Bad Value

Rivkah Brown

Report: ‘It’s a Scandal’: How Property Developers Failed to Sell a Single Flat in Balfron Tower

Ella Jessel

Feature: Where Are the Shadwell Fire Survivors Supposed to Go?

Rivkah Brown

Feature: London Asylum Seekers Are Refusing to Be Flung Around the Country by Profit-Seeking Private Companies

Charlotte England

Report: A Domestic Violence Expert Warned Keir Starmer That Labour Was Complicit in Apsana Begum’s ‘Abuse’. He Did Nothing

Rivkah Brown

Downstream: An Era-Defining Political Comeback—Aaron Bastani Meets Lutfur Rahman

Feature: A Labour Council Just Greenlit the Social Cleansing of Bangladeshi Brick Lane

Maliha Reza

Opinion: Labour’s Silence on Apsana Begum Shows How Morally Bankrupt the Party Has Become

Joshua Kelly and Sam Green

Plenty of people think mothers shouldn’t be in politics. Does that include Tower Hamlets Labour?

Charlotte Gerada

Interview: Interview: Rabina Khan

Social Cleansing in Tower Hamlets: Interview with Balfron Tower Evictee

James Butler

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