The Eyes Of The World Are Most Definitely on Tower Hamlets

"Culture is not some optional extra for our society; it is central to our personal development. It is also central to promoting social inclusion.Culture tears down challenges and breaks down barriers between people with a power that no politician can match. As the Olympics approach, the eyes of the world will be on London, on the East End and on Tower Hamlets."

Rania Khan wrote a nice piece about the Docklands International Festival and its significance for the borough. She makes some interesting points about social inclusion, but neglects how she is campaigning to ensure that strippers are economically excluded from the borough. 

Rania is of course correct that the 'eyes of the world' are on Tower Hamlets. They absolutely are, just not in a way that would make her very comfortable. Google gives very good stats about the volume of page views that a blog gets and the country of origin for each page view. The countries marked in red on the map below are all locations from where StrippingTheIllusion gets regular page views...

People from all of these countries seem to be interested in Object, Tower Hamlets Council, Lutfur Rahman, Rania Khan, CAPE and Michael Collins as well (although CAPE seem to have gone quiet lately, don't you think?). They keep coming back as well as I average about 50 page views a day.

Obviously Britain is the greatest source of my readership, but America and Russia also provide regular readers and its nice to see Brazil as well. Its an interesting time in London at the moment and there is much anticipation regarding the visitors that we are going to have during the Olympics.

So Rania and Tower Hamlets are getting great exposure, I just wonder what kind of judgements people are making...

01-04-12 - Now we have readers from Bosnia - Herzegovina...
02-04-12 - Just been joined by Poland...
04-04-12 - We now have Switzerland and Belgium...
06-04-12 - Iran and Romania are with us as well.
07-04-12 - Andorra just joined in.