by Puru Miah | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Politics on paper is a vocation of public service, delivered to the highest standards. So why is it seen by many as a rent-seeking opportunity? Some reflections. “Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been...
by Puru Miah | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Discussions about the next steps of the campaign are laying the possible foundation stones and vision for a 21st-century Civic East End. On a hot summer’s day in Brick Lane, marching through the Truman’s Brewery “A heap of broken images, where the...
by Puru Miah | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets
What happened in East London, with a police raid in Hoxton Docks on an art installation, acts as a warning for those of us that cherish fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and protest. On a morning in East London at Hoxton Docks police around 40 police...
by Puru Miah | Jul 3, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, COVID-19
Following the close of the Labour Party in the Batley and Spen by-election. An attempt to unpick the campaign, draw lessons and their applications to Tower Hamlets. There was once the Party of Labour “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have...
by Puru Miah | Jun 26, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
This month is PRIDE month. Despite the negative headlines about dysfunctional politics in Tower Hamlets. Standing up for minorities and oppressed groups is an age-old tradition in the East End. Tower Hamlets is one of the most diverse boroughs in London, and London...
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