‘…the inevitable point where you compare me to Nazi Germany’
‘SHE’S the superloved Times columnist who is impossible not to like. He’s the showbizz mister big from the News of The World. But when Caitlin and Dan [...]
July 2011
Official: New chief exec will get paid less
MOIRA Gibb’s replacement will not earn as much as the pay and bonuses package she earned at Camden Council which amounted to around £200,000 a year. The following is [...]
Moira’s farewell
EXCLUSIVE: MOIRA Gibb, Camden’s chief executive, has written to Labour council leader Nash Ali to inform him of her intention to leave the [...]
Kentish Town loses its exuberance
SOMETIMES the shortest letters to newspapers are the best. From last week’s New Journal: THE repainted “Kentish Town” has lost its exclamation mark. It was that [...]
Mr Grant and Mr McMullan
PHONE hacking – and it’s becoming trickier to work out who’s zooming who. Paul McMullan, the ex-News of the Worlder was back on TV last night for a Newsnight [...]
Ouch
THIS feels like rubbernecking at the scene… it’s aching to watch after just a few minutes, make that seconds, but you can’t look away at what becomes [...]
Sunday review #4: UCL gets a head; HS2 United; She’s having a baby
Sunday July 3, 2011 * I WONDER what Sylvia Jones thinks of the latest developments at the UCL Academy taking shape in Adelaide Road. She’s the headteacher from [...]
Kate and Will Street, NW3
I’VE had a few emails from people tickled by the story in this week’s New Journal about the request to rename part of Eton Avenue after ‘Kate and [...]
Option Eight
IT would be a crying shame if hearty Conservative councillor Jonny Bucknell’s performance poetry from Monday night passed without mention. Annoyed by Camden Town [...]
It’s in their DNA
CAMDEN Council leader Nash Ali came up with a snappy soundbite at Monday’s full council meeting when he declared during his annual extended speech that ‘democracy [...]