The Year In Twitpics
…another year of sending pictures (and videos) to Twitter Helena Bonham-Carter caught up with her favourite weekly read. The now former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho [...]
2015
Hampstead – or Gospel Oak?
THE new press complaints adjudicator IPSO has found the Hampstead and Highgate Express didn’t do anything wrong when it published a story earlier this year about a [...]
Snakebite Avenue
TO Holborn, where there is a possibility that Lena Jeger, 20 years an MP in the south of the borough in the BD (Before Dobbo) days, could be honoured with a road named [...]
Where’s Raj? Former council leader written out of Camden’s roll of honour
TONY Travers, the LSE professor who is a bit of a go-to guy for London’s TV news when they need an expert in local governance, has a new book out: the £25 hardback, [...]
Total War!
HAMPSTEAD and Kilburn Tulip Siddiq voted against bombing raids in Syria last night, drawing many hearts and much appreciation from Twitter’s doves. [...]
When UKIP went to Camden School for Girls
UKIP MP Douglas Carswell strayed into unfamiliar territory when he spoke to students at Camden School for Girls, whose famously lefty alumni includes Fiona Millar, Sarah [...]
Beware of the dogs
RICHARD Caring once threatened, jokingly, to set his dogs on me and Dan Carrier. The multimillionaire was angry that we had doorstepped him at his Hampstead mansion (mansion [...]
You can take the councillors out of the Town Hall…
IT was all very convivial over a glass of wine and mince pie at the Town Hall last night, as the council time-warped back a few spaces to celebrate the 50th anniversary of [...]
I know it may come as a shock to you, I know, I know it may come as a shock to you
TULIP Siddiq may be heading towards a vote against airstrikes in Syria, but her predecessor’s son is less convinced. The columnist Dan Hodges, Glenda Jackson’s [...]
Syria: Tulip defends Corbyn for sticking to principles
TULIP Siddiq always leaves herself a little wriggle room, so when she listed a whole load of reasons against bombing Isis in Syria on Radio 4’s Westminster Hour last [...]