Articles published by Puru Miah

Articles written by Puru Miah in various publications

Chartist Magazine articles by Puru Miah

1. Mutual Aid groups and Covid-19: a grassroots demand for social insurance

Puru Miah – 16/04/2020

Puru Miah sees the flowering of Mutual Aid groups as a signal for a new form of social insurance that includes a universal basic income.

2. The Muslims are immune

Puru Miah – 02/05/2020

Puru Miah finds Trevor Philips’ appointment as adviser to Public Health England and his Times comments about Muslims and Covid-19 deeply objectionable.

3. A Covid New World of ever-growing inequality

Puru Miah – 05/05/2020

As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the UK, Puru Miah reports how inequality and racism is seeing Covid-19 hit the Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities hardest of all.

4. When black lives don’t matter

Puru Miah – 10/06/2020

The recent Public Health England report on the impact of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities contains no action plan and sidesteps equalities law, says Puru Miah

5. The hustler’s guide on how not to tackle racism

Puru Miah – 21/06/2020

Puru Miah says the Johnson race commission is part of a deliberate policy to avoid taking action against racism

6. Playing politics with race

Puru Miah – 17/08/2020

Puru Miah on the perils of triangulation

7. Confronting prejudice in the Labour Party

Puru Miah –  -12/12/2020

A Labour report should spur action against Islamophobia

8. On yer bike!

Puru Miah – 02/02/2021

5 Pillars Magazine articles by Puru Miah

1. Comfortably numb with Islamophobia: Trevor Phillips, Muslims and COVID-19 realities

Puru Miah – 04/05/2020

Trevor Phillips has had a complicated history with the Muslim community. On April 20, things got a lot more complicated with his opinion piece published in the Times entitled, “We need to solve the ethnic puzzle of COVID 19. Could religion explain why some ethnic minorities seem to be more susceptible than others?

2. Where have all the congregations gone? COVID-19 deaths in the Muslim community

Puru Miah – 12/05/2020

The latest ONS figures show that Bangladeshis are 3.5 times more likely to die from coronavirus. But what the numbers don’t reveal is the human impact of these numbers. Victims of inequality and racism, COVID-19 is hitting the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities hardest of all.

Tower Hamlets News articles by Puru Miah

1. Liveable Streets – Is it fair?

Puru Miah – 13/02/2021

Details of new Cross-Party Inquiry in Tower Hamlets into Liveable Streets (Low Traffic Neighbourhoods).

2. On Yer Bike! A new tale of two cities in Tower Hamlets?

Puru Miah – 21/02/2021

A look at low traffic neighbourhoods (Liveable Streets), are bike-induced road closures creating a new “tale of two cities” in Tower Hamlets? With details of cross-party Tribunal to look at the issue.

3. Let’s talk about the problem of Drugs In Tower Hamlets.

Puru Miah – 28/02/2021

Next Thursday on the 5th of March 2021, Tower Hamlets Council will be passing a budget with proposed savings, a large portion of which, will fall on the Drug Treatment service. At a time of rising unemployment and poverty in the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic, how essential is the service?

4. Pride & Prejudice: Shamima and the rhetoric of #OneTowerHamlets.

Puru Miah – 06/03/2021

Is equality under the 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?

5. Comfortably Numb? Low Vaccine roll out and Tower Hamlets

Puru Miah – 10/03/2021

The latest statistical release from the NHS released on the 4th of March shows that Tower Hamlets in terms of vaccine roll-out is below the national average in all priority age groups and, in all wards, in some areas 20% below the national average.

What do these numbers say, and why are some people comfortably numb about it?

6. Life, Liberty and Privilege? Why I oppose Bow Liveable Streets.

Puru Miah – 17/03/2021

The climate change crisis is a fact. The problem of air pollution is a fact. Then why are working-class voices and perspectives silenced in the debate in Tower Hamlets? 

The rejection by Tower Hamlets Council of a cross-party call-in, challenging the Mayor’s decision on Bow Liveable Streets might give us some answers.

7. Tackling racism in Tower Hamlets: Are we behind the curve?

Puru Miah – 21/03/2021

Recently Tower Hamlets Council published its ‘Inequality Commission’ report on racial disparities. Speaking to grassroots stakeholders and those who took part, the report and process raise more questions than it answers. In Tower Hamlets, 10 years after the Equalities Act, how did we come to this?

8. Tower Hamlets Racism Report: A case of do as I say, not as I do?

Puru Miah – 27/03/2021

Why I object to the Black Asian Minorities Inequalities Report by Tower Hamlets Council, noted by the Mayor and Cabinet on the 24th March 2021. And why I will be seeking support to challenge the decision on the report, asking for a genuine debate.