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View Comments The River Edge police union announced the death of Sgt. Christopher Cheevers in a Facebook post on Wednesday. "The River Edge PBA is with a heavy heart that we reflect on the fact that we lost our friend, our brother, and our sergeant, Christopher Cheevers," the union said in the message, penned by the union president, Officer Patrick Diamond. Cheevers was an over-24-year veteran of the River Edge PBA and Police Department, according to Diamond, who spoke with NorthJersey.com on W...

Date Time Share Mile End Institute poll sheds light on Londoners’ views on Labour one year into Keir Starmer’s leadership Queen Mary University of London Other widely held views of the Labour party among Londoners are that it is incompetent (27 per cent) and old-fashioned (18 per cent). Only three per cent of voters in the capital think Labour is ‘united’ and likely to ‘keep its promises’ in government. Despite London being perceived as one of Labour’s electoral strongholds and w...

Sadiq Khan According to the poll, Khan leads his nearest rival, Shaun Bailey, by 47 per cent to 26 per cent. Whilst Khan’s support is down by four percentage points since the last poll in November 2020, his lead over Bailey, who is poised to suffer the worst defeat of a Conservative candidate since the London mayorality was established, remains intact. After second preferences are taken into account, Khan leads Bailey 66 per cent to 34 per cent. The figures reveal that support for Khan is s...

  Trump Takes on the World, BBC2 Why, oh why, doesn’t the BBC commission more contemporary documentaries like this? As an institution, the BBC has unparalleled access to all the leading political players in the world. Just mention the three letters  BBC and world leaders generally agree to be interviewed. This kind of programme is not inordinately expensive to make, yet how many are made each year? One? Two? Donald Trump’s foreign policy is one that will be analysed for decades to come. ...

Quick Read By Shafi Musaddique Correspondent After five years of intense debate, Britain is now finally, fully, out of the European Union. But its departure, when it happened on Jan. 1 st , turned out to be something of an anticlimax. That’s because the COVID-19 pandemic, and the government’s draconian lockdown response, have knocked everything else off the front pages and out of peoples’ minds. And with the implications of London’s new trade deal with the EU only starting to e...

This book provides the first book-length study of the political and economic ideas of the British left’s Alternative Economic Strategy in the 1970s and early 1980s. Discussing the AES’s approaches to capitalism, the nation state and the working class, it argues that existing academic accounts have significantly overstated the radicalism of the strategy. Perhaps more notable, especially in the light of its stated ‘revolutionary’ aims, was the extent of its moderation – i...

Grand Rapids Business Journal Entrepreneurial competition will leverage advanced technologies, data analytics to put people back to work. Courtesy New Profit West Michigan Works! has been selected along with workforce boards in five other states to receive tailored support and funding to pilot innovations that will help put more than 25,000 COVID-impacted workers back to work. Launched in June in response to the pandemic-induced labor market crisis, the Future of Work Grand Challenge was crea...