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The Big Q: Newham Elections

With the Newham elections taking place on May 3rd, this week’s Big Q invited Green Party member and former Newham mayoral candidate Chidi Oti...

Tory Rush to Apologise Over Windrush is Just Hot Air

As a grandchild of the Windrush generation, I listened with annoyance to the rhetoric of the Conservatives' recent insubstantial apology to my forebears. I cannot...

Is It Time To Stop The PC Police?

Facebook has removed the page of Britain First because it has “repeatedly violated its community standards”. But if social media giants such as Facebook and...

The Big Q: 15 Minutes with MP Stephen Timms

This week's longer edition of The Big Q is with long-standing Labour MP Stephen Timms. A little over a year after Stephen Timms MP spoke...

All Women are Women

Featuring Sklyar Pridgeon, our video this week looks at what it's like to be a trans woman in the UK today. Aside from the...

News Feast Special: The Sporting Way

  Pritchard will be running workshops in schools and community centres across the east and south east of London to try and help children from...

‘Read it. Enjoy It’

The third National Shakespeare week has just concluded and as April begins it hath put the spirit of youth into Spring. Organised by The Shakespeare...

Timms Not Timid

There seemed no better place to delve into the regeneration of East London, than a café on bustling East Ham High Street. And no...

SadFest: Not Just A Sob Story

Earlier this month Genesis Cinema in Mile End hosted Sadfest, the world's first festival dedicated to sadness and how to express it. SadFest kicked off...

So What’s Normal Anyway?

I have reached the point in my life where I’m broadly content within myself, with who I am and who I am in society....

Labour Looks At Newham Controversy ‘Very Briefly’

The National Executive of the Labour Party (NEC) has refused a request from party members in Newham to investigate how Sir Robin Wales was...

Wales Under Pressure, Labour Vote Called Into Question

In the interests of “democracy and accountability”, local lobby group Democracy Triggered (DT) is calling on party members to write to Labour's National Executive...

Trigger Ballot To Harpoon Wales?

Sir Robin Wales (61) has been the elected Mayor of the London Borough of Newham for as long as the office of elected mayor...