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The Rob Marchant “death threat”: Lutfur’s email to police 9 May 2013 | 06:18 pm
Remember the dastardly death threat against Mayor Lutfur Rahman that, er, wasn’t quite that? Hugh Muir of the Guardian ran the story here and here. On March 24, during what former Labour party manager...
Council uses “health and safety” to block details of councillors’ cab journeys 7 May 2013 | 06:01 pm
Hole. Digging. Stop. Rearrange those words and you get Tower Hamlets Council. After being embarrassed by our ruling councillors’ use of taxis, the council is now using the Freedom of Information Act t...
The (ab)use of spoken Bengali in the council chamber 4 May 2013 | 05:03 pm
A couple of weeks ago I made a formal complaint to the council about my job as a reporter being hindered by the frequent use of Bengali in the council chamber. The press are there to report these proc...
A threat to sue me from deputy mayor Ohid Ahmed 30 Apr 2013 | 10:57 pm
I know the phrase “you couldn’t make it up” is used with justifiable frequency in Tower Hamlets, but the following email I’ve just received really does defy belief. Subject: Asking to apologise for vi...
Isabella Freeman sues Tower Hamlets council (but judge says her case is “feeble”) 29 Apr 2013 | 06:40 pm
Isabella Freeman, the council’s £115,000 a year head of legal, has been something of town hall phantom in recent weeks. Her presence has been felt in the colder and gossipy corridors of Mulberry Place...
Now John Biggs’s taxi claims are revealed… 24 Apr 2013 | 06:31 pm
..you can see them on the City Hall website here. The details for his latest claims are here. £5. If anyone needs reminding of the fares claimed in that same financial year by his Lutfurite opponents,...
Ohid Ahmed’s £140 cab fare: it was for Jesse Jackson’s birthday party 22 Apr 2013 | 06:19 pm
In February, I highlighted this taxi claim by Ohid Ahmed, Lutfur’s deputy mayor. And I wonder what the barons at Unison feel about him charging taxpayers £140 for a return trip from Mulberry Place to ...
Newham’s Sir Robin Wales confirms his ambition for City Hall 15 Apr 2013 | 09:13 am
My post yesterday on Sir Robin Wales appears to have caused a bit of a stir, most of it within his own party. From what I hear about Newham’s mayor, he is regularly attacked as “divisive”, which seems...
Sir Robin Wales takes aim at the race-ridden politics of Tower Hamlets 14 Apr 2013 | 12:16 pm
David Goodhart, the director of the Labourish think tank Demos, has a new book out on the immigration question, The British Dream. It’s caused something of a stir, as these things tend to do. It draws...
Guest post: The way the council investigates vote fraud allegations 11 Apr 2013 | 03:58 pm
With all the ostrich-like denials that there’s no vote fraud problem in Tower Hamlets, I thought it would be useful to publish this guest post by Mike Cobb, a journalist living in the Bow Quarter deve...
