by Puru Miah | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
An attempted explanation as to why Apsana Begum MP lost her Labour reselection votes in every single ward in her constituency of Poplar & Limehouse This analysis is from the anecdotal conversations with Labour members in Poplar and Limehouse, where I served as a...
by Puru Miah | Jun 26, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
A tongue-in-cheek reflection of the physical attack on local Labour Party officials and the attempt to disrupt the trigger ballot meeting on the Poplar and Limehouse MP, Apsana Begum. A request to all to look at facts and not be engaged in the spreading of...
by Puru Miah | Jun 5, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Reflections on the #SAVEBRICKLANE campaign, two years on. And how it fits into the wider history of the Battle for Brick Lane and beyond. And the attempt to write a manifesto for it and the #Endz. It all started on one winter day… The picture was taken in...
by Puru Miah | May 30, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets
Looking at the contribution of Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury and the campaign for language learning in the East End. An unlikely story of how he and I came together. With a possible way forward in restoring the Community Language Service. A Death in London “আমি কি...
by Puru Miah | May 22, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
A story of friendship gained and lost, through a journey to change the East End for the better. Why I am taking a sabbatical. Prologue: Thanks, but no, thanks. “No. Even now, I can’t altogether believe that any of this really happened…”Christopher...
by Puru Miah | May 14, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
An analysis of TH Labours’ defeat to Aspire, looking at both micro and macro factors. As well as some suggestions moving forward. Are you looking for an explanation? Given Labour gains, particularly Westminster in London, how do you explain the loss of the...
by Puru Miah | Mar 20, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets
Is it a celebration of diversity and an aid to community cohesion in Brick Lane, or is it a case of, art washing and whitewash of history? A new image or reinforcing the old? Modern-day Sylhet and the urban sprawl that occupies both banks of the Surma. Stones in the...
by Puru Miah | Dec 27, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
A ‘tongue in cheek’ exploration of the phenomena in Tower Hamlets politics, where everyone is a suspected Lutfur Rahman puppet unless he/she can prove otherwise. A typical day in Tower Hamlets The first fact, I first joined the Labour Party in 1995. The...
by Puru Miah | Nov 30, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community
Marabout: romanized: murābiṭ, lit. One who is attached/garrisoned to the frontier. Also, a wandering spiritual teacher. On Friday the 19th of November 2021, large crowds gathered at the Ford Square Mosque in Whitechapel, officially known as Eshaatul Islam Mosque, to...
by Puru Miah | Sep 30, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Residents will be moved out of a large housing association block, Clare House in Bow, after inspections revealed it “cannot be kept safe without major refurbishment or demolition”. A slumlord (or slum landlord): is a slang term for a landlord, generally an absentee...
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