A University of East London artist is addressing Brexit with an exhibition featuring boats made of bank notes from around the world, adrift on a sea of copper coins. Susan Stockwell’s ‘Trade Winds’ is running from now until 15 October at St Peter’s Church, Castle Hill, Cambridge, (next to Kettles Yard). ‘Trade Winds’ addresses questions that are relevant to today’s Brexit conundrum and ...
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Supreme Court: Parliament suspended ‘to stop MPs frustrating PM’, judges told
Boris Johnson sought to suspend Parliament to avoid the risk of MPs “frustrating or damaging” his Brexit plans, the Supreme Court has heard. Lawyers for campaigners challenging the suspension said there was “strong evidence” the PM saw MPs “as an obstacle” and wanted to “silence” them. But a government lawyer said the PM was “entitled” to suspend Parliament, and it ...
Read More »Mayor Biggs backs ‘Cover the Cost’ campaign
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets has backed a new campaign from the homelessness charity Crisis, calling for the government to urgently address the gap between Local Housing Allowance rates and private sector rents. Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates are set by the government and are used to calculate Housing Benefit for tenants renting from private landlords. LHA rates were created ...
Read More »Ofsted rates Tower Hamlets summer holiday scheme as ‘good’
Extra places available for affordable holiday scheme for October half term. Record attendance at summer holiday schemes. Ofsted has rated a Tower Hamlets summer holiday scheme as good following an unannounced inspection last month. On one of the busiest days of the summer programme, Ofsted visited as 230 children were attending the scheme, which also included two trips to ...
Read More »Community projects welcome council’s Small Grants Fund
Projects to support future young leaders and transform a community garden among the successful bids. A total of 13 local community projects and thousands of residents are set to benefit from almost £45,000 funding announced as part of Tower Hamlets Council’s Small Grants Fund (SGF). The fund was agreed last year to support mainly small scale community projects with one ...
Read More »UK and World must be careful of India-Pakistan political conflict opening doorway of misled Jihad recruitment of youth
Fatema Miah: UK have plenty of matters on the table to deal with; home affairs, Brexit is a sharp point, the budget, decision making about the primary services to corporal and concern of Suitable Ministers to party candidates. Simultaneously, UK must be careful about India and Pakistan political rivalry and it’s very crutial and an alert matter that Britain ...
Read More »Umar Muktar versus Roman Empire.
Fatema Miah: Empire and power abuse went on together, it was power seeking a norm as a desire in the past centuries, what marked horrible chapters of serving cruelty against victims and history been written with pride of being abusively power exercising by some to their victims. Here, let’s talk about Libya. In the past centuries, Battles and bloodshed ...
Read More »CPRMB wants Anne Main MP to take up minority issue with Bangladesh
Ansar Ahmed Ullah: In a petition dated 10 September UK based Campaign for the Protection of Religious Minorities in Bangladesh (CPRMB) draws British Anne Main MP’s attention to the sufferings of the minorities in Bangladesh. The petition goes on to say Hindus are the minority in Bangladesh, and they are leaving Bangladesh in thousands according to the census of Bangladesh ...
Read More »What just happened in British politics and what comes next?
Rayhan Ahmed Topader: Despite a string of stinging defeats in Parliament, and the painful, public resignation of his own brother, Prime Minister Boris Johnson continued his passionate push for an early general election he hopes would help him deliver Brexit by Oct. 31.Johnson cast his quest to bust Britain out of the European Union in defiant and populist ...
Read More »From Ottoman to todays direction
Fatema Miah: Ottoman comes up when talking about Islam- law and sharia. Islam’s mercy and beauty of justice equality only Mohammed pbuh and the Prominent companions, the four, can be raise as the examples, undoubtedly. Ottoman they saying was a great for that civilization, and I had put a question mark in my previous article. Ottoman, without any argument, indeed ...
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