Simon’s special delivery
THE Liberal Democrats were mocked by local rivals at the last general election when, buzzing with the confidence brought on by Clegg-o-mania and the telly debates, they [...]
August 2014
H&StP: The Siege of Bayham Street
FORMER Camden Tory leader Piers Wauchope’s notoriously pulped history of Camden politics – the imaginatively titled: Camden, a political history – grants [...]
H&StP: On Comms
AFTER yesterday’s post about Sarah Hayward’s intriguing run for selection in Holborn and St Pancras, former Lib Dem councillor John Bryant was not too fussed [...]
Facebores?
IT’S going to be a long summer and a long autumn for local Labour Party members if this is the kind of selection spam that will be filling their Facebook news feeds for [...]
H&StP: Sarah’s challenge
SARAH Hayward’s joust in the Holborn and St Pancras selection contest has grown more interesting while I’ve been away on holiday. Since she became leader of [...]
Tweet that: Braithers loves Sarah after all
AFTER spending his final months at the Town Hall fretting about council leader Sarah Hayward’s frenetic pace on Twitter – he even raised the fact he was [...]
Frank Dobson gets down with the selfies
A COUPLE of posts ago I was admiring exiting MP Frank Dobson’s decision, consciously or not, to avoid bumblebrag self-promotion on Twitter. So what if the world has [...]