Too much bang for your buck
DOESN’T look like Hampstead MP Glenda Jackson is looking forward too much to Guy Fawkes Night next month. A quick scan of the Early Day Motions at the House of Commons [...]
October 2009
Three horses
PARLIAMENTARY candidates Chris Philp and Lib Dem Ed Fordham were on the phone yesterday both telling me that a recent YouGov poll of marginal seats puts them in the lead in [...]
This week Nic Careem meets.. Obama
COULDN’T resist making sure a few diary notes about Nic Careem’s defection to the Conservative Party went into the New Journal after I went to their Manchester [...]
Another invitation lost in the post
WE had a bit of fun doorstepping Gordon Brown in Islington earlier this year, asking his powdered face why the Labour government hadn’t done more to help Camden’s [...]
The Black Museum
A BIT of a scoop in May, I did up a story for the New Journal about how City Hall is considering opening up the famous Crime Museum at Scotland Yard – the collection [...]
French Fries
SO who fancies going for a McMona Lisa after this? Tsk. Tsk. Parisians were full of rage this week when they learned that McDonalds is preparing to open an outlet in the [...]
Don’t mention the fact we’re going to win..
TO Manchester, where they were biting their bottom lips, desperate not to let slip any complacency. It’s a self-gagging mechanism. These are the Tories, excited but [...]
The question still remains..
One of the most recognisable of the Liberal Democrats nationally, Question Time regular Sarah Teather, came to Camden Town on Friday. As the party’s housing [...]
The freshers
IT was freshers week in Brighton and the pubs and clubs were beating with red-eyed students excited for their first week away from the folks. Vodka strawpedos all round. But [...]