My snow picture
NOW, I know it’s a thing newspapers do almost on autopilot but I’m not a major fan of endless snow picture galleries. Mainly because it snows every year and [...]
January 2013
Royal beano
A SERVING councillor raises an eyebrow and emails a short and snappy one-liner: ‘Is this what Camden cllrs should be spending their time on ? !’. They are [...]
Turn to the back page
CRAFTY members of the anti-High Speed Two lobby have got their timing right for the February edition of Total Politics magazine. With Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin [...]
Conservative hopefuls stay schtum on Europe
IT seemed a fair enough question from a rational enough questioner. In fact it came from the former leader of Camden’s Conservatives no less. Although it was presented [...]
Glenda: ‘Political parties not engaging with the electorate’
ALEX Stevenson, the perceptive deputy ed at politics.co.uk, meets Hampstead and Kilburn MP Glenda Jackson and concludes that it seems “sensible” for her to exit the [...]
Thank you for the days
FOR a few seconds on Sunday I thought I was about to secure a bit of a world exclusive photo: a rare picture of Ray Davies smiling. He’s a bit of hero to me. I listen [...]
H&K: Emily from Blackheath seeks to replace Glenda from Blackheath
THE Lib Dems have got in first and chosen a candidate for the Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary seat currently held by Glenda Jackson, one of the contests left finely [...]
Inspector Sands and Mister Neptune
I LIKE the Londonist post about Inspector Sands, the name you hear being called over the PA system when bad things are possibly happening at a tube station. This, it is [...]
And we’re off again…
HAPPY New Year. Break over. What have we missed while eating Quality Street for breakfast? * IT is probably Camden Labour Party which needs to be quickest off the blocks in [...]