Tower Hamlets Council Youth Service Corruption – An Email From 2011, a Request for Help

Did you write this email in 2011 alleging corruption in the Youth Service?

Council Attempts (And Fails) to Keep Youth Services Cuts Quiet

The Council is trying to keep another major issue quiet. Wonder how that is working out?

Youth services ‘centre of excellence’ in Whitechapel is a, er, cannabis farm

Police raid reveals cannabis farm at youth services centre of excellence. Oh.

Seventh major review of Youth Services in eight years announced

Tower Hamlets Youth Services is undergoing the seventh major review of how it operates in eight…

Exclusive – Mayor Biggs protected Youth Service officer from investigation

Mayor Biggs protected a member of Tower Hamlets Youth Service from investigation and continues to enjoy…

Poplar Papers 8 – Youth Service Timeline 2003-2020

In 2012, under Mayor Rahman, Tower Hamlets Youth Service was moved from one council directorate to…

Poplar Papers 7 The £470,865 Youth Service credit card bill

Between 1st April 2013 and 30th October 2014, 27 card holders in Tower Hamlets Council's Youth…

Poplar Papers 6 – Abzal Ali, Interim Head of Youth Service

Mr Abzal Ali authorised £414,726 of AP1 payments during the 15 months for which we have…

Poplar Papers 3 – Youth Service investigation 2019 puzzle

Tower Hamlets Council's Youth Service still seems to be in trouble. Nothing new there then. Odd…

UK Youth Fund Covid relief grants for youth organisations

Youth organisations with an income of under £250,000 can apply for grants of up to £50,000…

Poplar Papers 2 – The Summer Youth Programme 2016

Clean Up Board allegation CU 023 was that the procurement process for the LBTH Summer Youth…

Message from the outgoing Corporate Director of Children’s Services Debbie “Naughty Step” Jones

Corporate Director of Children's Services Debbie "Naughty Step" Jones is leaving Tower Hamlets. Wonder where she…

Poplar Papers 14 – How to earn your council pay while banged up in jail

A Tower Hamlets Youth Service worker received his full council pay while serving a three month…

Poplar Papers 5 – AP1 Vouchers Table of Payments

Details of AP1 payments authorised by five members of Tower Hamlets Youth Service.

Poplar Papers 4 – £1,288,815 AP1 Voucher Payments

In a 15 month period five members of Tower Hamlets Youth Service authorised AP1 Voucher payments…

Internal emails reveal LBTH corruption allegations made in 2011

In 2011 a whistleblower alleged that Labour councillors were involved in the creation of posts in…

Allegations of widespread corruption under Rahman and Biggs since 2010

Although many of the allegations in the testimony of Mark Edmunds in his case for unfair…

Rahman Announces First ‘Relief Package’ of 100 Day Plan

Mayor Lutfur Rahman has announced the first ‘relief package’ of his promised 100 day plan to…

Lutfur’s Main Man Wants To Change History To Suit The Aspire Party

Kalam Mahmud Abu Taher Choudhury (aka KM Abutah Chowdhury aka KM Abu Taher Choudhury aka Kalam…

List of Mayoral Executive Decisions

Moley has made his very own list of Mayoral Executive Decisions!

“I Would Trust Lutfur Rahman With My Life” says Ken Livingstone

Lutfur's campaign launch to be the next Directly Elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets

Tower Hamlets Council Property Transactions Puzzle – Update

The bells Esmerelda, what’s with the bells? There are so many weird things in this story…

Need pizza? Need property? AP1 is your friend

TL; DR Tower Hamlets Council has still not provided a credible explanation as to why the…

Hidden £156,000,000 Council Spending Revealed

TL;DR (Too Long;Didn’t Read) London’s Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets council has spent £156,000,000 using the AP1 ‘spot…

Why The Wapping Squirrels Fell Out Of Their Nests Laughing

Tower Hamlets council is recruiting an Independent Person to promote high standards of behaviour. Honest.

Biggs Attempts (And Fails) To Hide Bad News From Councillors

Seems the Mayor was trying to keep the SEND Ofsted inspection bad news from councillors.

Council Orders Wapping Overground Station Flowers Removed Because of No Licence

If you know the right people in Tower Hamlets you can do whatever you like. But…

Liveable Streets To Be ‘Paused and Reviewed’ – Biggs

The Liveable Streets aka Low Traffic Networks that have plagued communities have not quite bitten the…

Labour’s Weavers by-election car crash, Moley upsets the Mayor #1

The car crash of a selection for Apsana Begum as the Labour PPC for Poplar &…

Moley’s Review of (Some of) the Year 2020, Lockdown Edition

We will be pretending the first three months of the year did not happen due to…

Whatever the result of the Mayoral referendum, democracy will lose

It is convenient for many politicians to forget that Lutfur Rahman and John Biggs are two…

Hard up LBTH has no idea where £112m Covid-19 cash went

Whitehall has given £112m Covid-19 relief funding to Tower Hamlets council. A FOI response shows the…

Cllr. Puru Miah reports Mayor Biggs & Cllr. Brady to the cops

Even by Rotten Boroughs standards Tower Hamlets has excelled itself this week with two quite extraordinary…

Biggs quietly delegates Directly-Elected Mayor powers to Cabinet

At Cabinet last week Mayor Biggs mentioned that he had delegated his Directly-Elected Mayor powers to…

Desperate times call for Special Measures according to Biggs

If you have never read anything about the never ending train wreck that is Tower Hamlets…

Biggs allegations – LBTH response and a POCA question

Odd that Tower Hamlets Communications Team only responds to requests for comment when it suits them,…