Roughly 80 Reform UK councillors have now departed - around 70 between the 2025 and 2026 elections, and a further 10 since 7 May this year. By-elections to replace them cost approximately £20,000 each. ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaQ5...

Farage, crypto and the £5mn gift ft.trib.al/LU1PDdA

#Newham has finally published their full results, albeit in the more user-hostile format imaginable. I have wrangled them into something more readable and published them here, on a single page. forestgate.net/2026/05/11/c...

How did that "the previous Labour administration was rubbish, vote Labour" campaign work out for you, Newham?

And finally (for now at least) part 3: forestgate.net/2026/05/10/w...

Forhad Hussain elected, but LTNs win newham65.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/f...

Your Party, proclaiming their support for a multi-property buy to let landlord whose main policy was promoting car use and ripping out LTNs. 🙄

Ousting Starmer over Mandelson would be madness – yet it’s open season in Westminster | Simon Jenkins www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Final call for our Safer Streets Woodgrange ride TOMORROW! Come and join us, bring the whole family, and let’s show everyone how amazing a safer, lower-traffic Capel and Woodgrange would be 🙌 lcc.org.uk/events/newha...

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

We are delighted to see the Newham Green Party have published their manifesto today & included in it a promise to tackle our streets, making them both cleaner & safer for all. Thank you @newhamgreens.bsky.social @areeq.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

Richard Tice addressing everyone who believes he didn't fiddle his taxes.

My response to the Southport inquiry: the one lesson we definitely did learn is that some idiot spreading misinformation online can lead to widespread riots among knuckle-dragging racist fuckwits.

Join us next Saturday for @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social's birthday signing! @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

New post: The fascinating story of 53 Hampton Rd on the E7's Woodgrange estate. It's hosted a dance school, several religious congregations, and, most famously, BB's, an Afro-Caribbean music and social club named after its former owner, Belford Butler. Now up-market flats. www.E7-NowandThen.og

Coming up next week! @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

New blogpost: why are Newham's mayoral candidates so obsessed with appeasing car owners? forestgate.net/2026/03/23/d...

Michail Antonio will be signing his book @newhambookshop.bsky.social on Sunday 31 May from 2-4pm. Pre order your copy now.

New blogpost: A failure of leadership. ‘Community ballots’ are no substitute for governing. forestgate.net/2026/03/19/a...

We didn't just find his videos - we also found Farage's outtakes, which show when his money-making sideline is interrupted by a text message or phone call, requiring him to re-record the video, he appears quick to anger.

Excellent analysis of the cost of ‘free parking’ for all in Mayoral candidates promises in Newham… forestgate.net/2026/03/11/f...

As it's IWD, I've written about some local* women: Elizabeth Fry, Mary Renault, Hannah Dads, Shirley Ann Field, Maureen Duffy, Jane Rebecca Yorke and more! millionreasons.livejournal.com/676728.html * local to me (Stratford, Forest Gate, Maryland).

An exciting event coming up next month! @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

New blog post: Journey's End. Sir Robin Wales finds a new home in Reform. forestgate.net/2026/03/04/j...

Sir Robin Wales, longterm Labour leader of Newham council, has defected to Reform UK.

New post: 23 Hampton Rd, on the Woodgrange estate: a house, factory, synagogue and home of convicted WW2 food rationing culprit. Strange history of oddly shaped house on otherwise very ordered estate. www.E7-NowandThen.org

This ludicrous charade shames the UK. They could stop it with a stroke of the pen www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The Farage Files: Week One @mrjamesob.bsky.social and Henry Riley have been scrutinising Reform UK with a fine-tooth comb, uncovering a massive 22 stories. youtu.be/fyNKDMxg2bM

Here’s a thing I wrote 12 years ago (!) about how one-party state councils eventually collapse. Back then I said #Newham was at stage 3. Now it’s stage 5 and moving rapidly towards 6. forestgate.net/2014/05/07/e...

New post: WW2 bombdamage to Forest Gate's Woodgrange estate: www.E7-NowandThen.org

New development proposals for Forest Gate’s Durning Hall imminent. Don’t hold your breath. Company is less than three years old, barely trading, one 27-year old director. One of 93 companies registered at an address in Ilford.

90,000 properties in England/Wales are owned by offshore companies. Almost half unlawfully hide their true ownership We've found them, mapped them, and published everything ▶️ This 60-second video shows how to find secretly owned property near you 📊 Details & stats below

Approaching the 150th anniversary of Fores Gate's Woodgrange Estate and the 50th of its Conservation Area status, a new blog/post offering a brief socio-economic history of the estate: www.E7-NowandThen.org

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein.

🚨NEW POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 All Evri executives to have their Christmas presents delivered by Evri, to see how they like it. Love Christmas. Vote Binface.

In the second part of our series on places in labour history, Jane Donaldson recalls the great #co-operative movement pageant held at Wembley Stadium in London in 1938. #C20th #BritishHistory sslh.org.uk/2025/12/03/w...

Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.

Bowie at V&A east storehouse. The exhibits are excellent, but it’s the archive side, complete with replica documents to leaf through, that really introduces people to the archive. People kept checking they were allowed to look at them but then sat fascinated for ages.

Happy to make it to Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection just before it finished. Good to see this fresh response to such a classic collection - and Newham artist Madge Gill featured too!

I will be running an intro session on using open source census data at Senate House on 23rd October…sign up at the link below. It’s in person so limited spaces available www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta set to make first start for France in their World Cup qualifier against Iceland tonight. The 28-year-old earned his first cap as a second half substitute in Friday's 3-0 win over Azerbaijan. #CPFC

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

‘French Riviera, Bethnal Green’ 2024 Oul on canvas

‘After the Hurricane’ 1988 Storm Amy reminded me of the painting I began a few weeks after the devastation caused in October1987, featuring King Edward Memorial Park, Shadwell. Unusually I have included myself in this picture!

Only 4 places are now available for Peter Ashan's Black History Month workshop on Sat 11 October! Book your free place today www.ticketsource.co.uk/walthamfores...

James O'Brien: Royal commentator...

Sure, Conservatives are right to ask why Starmer tolerated a paedophile’s friend as US ambassador but why are they not concerned about the PM hosting another pal of Epstein, one who has repeatedly lied about their relationship? And why are BBC interviewers not asking them about this?