A Government ‘Best Value’ Inspection of Tower Hamlets Council Turned Out to Be Very Bad Value
Rivkah Brown
Did Michael Gove create a ‘gravy train for officials’?
Tag: tower hamlets
‘It’s a Scandal’: How Property Developers Failed to Sell a Single Flat in Balfron Tower
Ella Jessel
139 homes now sit empty.
Where Are the Shadwell Fire Survivors Supposed to Go?
Rivkah Brown
Six of them are living in a squat.
London Asylum Seekers Are Refusing to Be Flung Around the Country by Profit-Seeking Private Companies
Charlotte England
A group in Greenwich has been resisting removal for a month. Now 40 people in east London are too.
A Domestic Violence Expert Warned Keir Starmer That Labour Was Complicit in Apsana Begum’s ‘Abuse’. He Did Nothing
Rivkah Brown
The expert said the trigger process was an 'extension of the abuse'.
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 Labour Council Just Greenlit the Social Cleansing of Bangladeshi Brick Lane
Maliha Reza
"This will be the final nail in the coffin for a lot of Bangladeshi voters in Tower Hamlets.”
Labour’s Silence on Apsana Begum Shows How Morally Bankrupt the Party Has Become
Joshua Kelly and Sam Green
Forget racism and domestic violence, all Starmer seems to care about is ousting the left.
Plenty of people think mothers shouldn’t be in politics. Does that include Tower Hamlets Labour?
Charlotte Gerada
Interview: Rabina Khan
Aaron Bastani sat down with independent Tower Hamlets mayoral candidate about the demise of Labour in ethnically mixed working class communities.
