Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
This evening, at a packed AGM of Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats at Oxford House in Bethnal Green, I was adopted as the LibDem PPC for my home constituency of Poplar and Limehouse (new boundaries, having lost all the bits in Newham). It’s an extraodinary seat, illustrating both the huge diversity of London and also the [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A Labour councillor, magistrate and union representative Rosemary Maher, who has died at the age of 81, served as a Labour councillor in Tower Hamlets, east London, from 1974 to 1978. She held various offices within the party, including secretary of the then Stepney and Bethnal Green parliamentary constituency and ward treasurer. She was receptionist for various MPs and local councillors. She sat...
Wanted truthful parliament in the UK (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
1705 GMT London Saturday 21 November 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. AN AADHIKARonline investigative report [1] The malaise of unaccountability and corruption that the Tower Hamlets Council-controlled 'free' 'newspaper' 'East End Life' represents has now reached the Borough of Lambeth. According to a report carried on the ITV London Tonight programme last night [Friday 20 November 2009], the disease...
KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
0720 Hrs GMT London Sunday 08 November 2009 [latest edition of this file]: Editor © Muhammad Haque. Tower Hamlets Councillor [until recently] Louise Alexander was one of those who listened to Vince Cable at his ‘celebrity’ appearance at a ‘local’ Lib Dems ‘do’ held at the Oxford House in Bethnal Green on 15 October 2009. Ms Alexander was one of over 15 people...
The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Thursday: At the risk of incurring Auntie Jenny's FANGIRL-ENVY, I've been to see Mr Dr Vince "the Power" Cable. He was here in Tower Hamlets to boost the local party and particularly our excellent candidate, Mr Ajmal Masroor . Bethnal Green, currently fiefdom of Mr Gorgeous Pussycat George, leader of the Respect-the-Leotard Party, is one of the most deprived Boroughs in the country and yet...
KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
0145 GMT London Sunday 18 October 2009 KHOODEELAAR! Reiterates today the FACT that there has not been a 'Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats Party’ at all. Not when it comes to policy. Not when it comes to holding the Council to account. Even less so when it comes to any parliamentary accountability. Which is neither exceptional nor surprising. As we have been reporting since the evening of Wednesday...
KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
2350 Hrs GMT London Thursday 15 October 2009: Editor © Muhammad Haque. KHOODEELAAR! Is TELLING UK Lib Dems party and their deputy Leader Vince Cable so! They are not a serious political party. Not quite. Not despite their ‘leader’ Nick Clegg uttering that very silly wish that he wanted to be UK Prime Minister. Despite the odd – note that word in context, ODD – exception...
Dave's Part (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
LONGSTANDING readers may remember that I am facing libel action from Tower Hamlets Tory activist Johanna Kaschke, following a post on this blog in 2007. She is also suing two other Labour Party members, Alex Hilton and John Gray, over related issues. I spent all day yesterday in the High Court, listing to Alex's appeal that an application for summary judgement be upheld, and I'm just about to head...
acediscovery (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
I've been reading the Route1to499 bus blog for some months now. Ben - who writes it - is trying to travel on all London's bus routes. He'll be doing this until 2012. The idea tickled me, so I asked Ben to accompany him on some trips. So today, me and he went on three routes (108, 241, 309) from the grimy / glittering heights of Lewisham to buzzy-with-anticipation Stratford, from there to down at heel...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
This piece from effendi is cross-posted from The Spittoon Oxford House in Bethnal Green, east London is a community organisation dating back to 1884. To support its role as a venue for theatre events, drama, dance and the like it receives money from a wide range of organisations including the National Lottery, the London Borough of [...]
Jon's union blog (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
I've just received the following via UNISON United Left; UCU members at Tower Hamlets College have been on all out strike since Thursday 27th August - fighting to defend jobs and education. Below please see all ways you can raise this in your branches. What you can do to help: 1. Picket lines all day Visit picket lines Poplar High Street E14 0AF Arbour Square E1 0PT Bethnal Green E2 6AB 2. Take a collection...
kipperfrog (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
Sunnydale High School from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Torrance High School, 2200 W. Carson Street, Torrance, CA) Disneyland , Paris Daily Planet from Superman 1 & 2 (Daily News HQ, 220, East 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, NY) Daily Bugle from Spiderman (Flatiron building, 175 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, NY) Dave Gorman in Bethnal Green (462 Bethnal Green Rd, Tower Hamlets, London...
KHOODEELAAR! calling for a truthful parliament (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
0835 Hrs GMT London Saturday 01 August 2009 Action replay of the accurate diagnosis of Tony Blair’s touting role for Big Business CRASSrail scam as seen by KHOODEELAAR! in July 2006 and a then current commentary on Blair's contribution to the reduction of the UK Houses of Parliament to the morass that it is and has been… Khoodeelaar! Manifesto for Bethnal Green and Bow against Crossrail...
Wanted truthful parliament in the UK (Free subscription) | 29/06/2009
George Galloway MP challenges Crossrail promoters over Tower Hamlets Council © Muhammad Haque 13 February 200 9 At the weekend Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway issued a clearest possible challenge to that Council: that it is that Council that has created the Crossrail attack on the propel of the East End borough and if at the May 2006 elections the RESPECT coalition gain control of that...
BLANKNEY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
The Blind Beggar is a public house in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located in the Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel. It was built in 1894 on the site of another inn, established before 1654, and named after the legend of Henry de Montfort, a son of Simon de Montfort. In the legend, Henry was wounded and lost his sight in the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and was nursed to health by a baroness,...
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