Tower Hamlets: Labour mayoral confusion  The last time I
reported on this enthralling saga Labour had drawn up a
shortlist of five contenders to be their candidate for October's
mayoral election. That shortlist still exists, the five names on
it have not changed and local party members will make their
choice on Saturday as before. It all sounds very
straightforward. Don't be deceived.  The shortlist of five was
put together after a previous shortlist of three had to be torn
up following a legal challenge by Councillor Lutfur Rahman, a
former council leader who'd hoped to be on it but was not. He
isn't on the shortlist of five either, but for a while it
appeared to him that he'd been added to it. As the East London
Advertiser reports, Rahman even held a press conference
yesterday announcing his belated inclusion.  So why isn't he on
the shortlist now? I'm told that Rahman's press conference was
held in good faith because a Labour party official had sent him
a letter in error, telling him he was back in the may