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Over 600 residents sign an open letter accusing Tower Hamlets Council, Mayor John Biggs and his Cabinet of a “cover up in regard to serious allegations of discrimination direct and indirect by Tower Hamlets Council and its partners”. On Thursday, 18th of March 2021, Tower Hamlets Council launched its Black Asian Minority Ethnic Inequalities Commission Report. Over that weekend, meetings …

Over 1,200 residents have signed an open letter against Bethnal Green councillors (St. Peters and Weavers ward), for failing to support them in their complaints of discrimination against Tower Hamlets Council in it’s controversial Liveable Streets consultation.  An open letter started a few weeks ago has gathered more than a twelve hundred signatories accusing their local councillors in ignoring local …

Is equality under law being applied by Tower Hamlets Council in regard to Shamima. If so, why are they refusing to carry out a Serious Case Review? Or is Shamima and others like her, an ‘exception’ to the rule? “[The] Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.” – Carl Schmitt  The Rule of Law in Britain is something all …

The row over Islamophobic abuse in a Labour Party meeting grew to international proportions. Online news portals in Bangladesh covered the recent incident naming activists close to Mayor John Biggs as protagonists. The news coverage comes after local Labour Party members issued a further statement in the Bengali language, condemning the behaviour.  Chhatak Online News has published a video interview …

Over 1,000 residents sign an open letter against three Whitechapel councillors for failing to support them in their complaints of discrimination against Tower Hamlets Council in it’s controversial Liveable Streets consultation. An open letter started less than a week ago has gathered more than a thousand signatories, accusing three Whitechapel councillors, Faroque Ahmed, Shah Ameen and Victoria Obaze, of agreeing …