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 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 | 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...
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