by Puru Miah | Oct 9, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
The recent vote at Tower Hamlets Council on the Neighbourhood Plan for Brick Lane highlighted heated opinions on the future of Brick Lane. Is a clash inevitable, or is there a consensus way forward? Welcome to another day at Tower Hamlets Council “And was Jerusalem...
by Puru Miah | Aug 28, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Tower Hamlets Council is deciding whether to adopt the “Spitalfields and Banglatown Neighbourhood Plan”. With the current Cost of Living Crisis, why should it be adopted and supported by all. In summary: 🌟 Current Council policies in the area, have failed. 🌟 Leading...
by Puru Miah | Aug 6, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Crime and Anti Social Behavior (ASB), Democracy
A look at The Aspire Plan, the Strategic Plan for Tower Hamlets Council. A Developers Charter. With no full Equality Impact Assessment carried out. Increasing inequality and social cleansing in the East End. Once upon a time at Tower Hamlets Council, The Aspire Plan...
by Puru Miah | Jul 30, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
A reflection on Islamophobia in the Labour Party. With a focus on a response to the Forde Report, on whether it is necessary for Labour to select ‘Hijabi’ or bearded men as candidates. PS. For those who have not seen Jordan Peele’s film, ‘Get...
by Puru Miah | Jul 23, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
How the ordinary folks in the East End came together and defeated a flagship Government and Council policy. Liveable Streets. Observations and analysis. Liveable Streets was a flagship policy by the previous Labour administration, of introducing Low Traffic...
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...
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