Royal Hainess
LABOUR cabinet councillor Abdul Hai says the Queen is “brilliant”, and that, contrary to a council statement to the CNJ earlier in the week, Camden Council does [...]
April 2016
I’ll save the toilets in Sutton
THREE weeks from polling day and Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith has come up with a promise to cover the cost of Camden’s under threat public toilets. His [...]
Boycott Israel? Green Party candidate changes his answer live on stage
REMEMBER back at school when the teacher asked you a question in front of the whole class that you were expected to know the answer to – but you didn’t, and so [...]
Westminster calculates the price of youth
THE campaigns have been waged (see above, one candidate brought a kitten into the Town Hall chamber to make his case), the votes have been cast and tomorrow’s [...]
Azalea
CONGRATULATIONS to Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq and her husband Chris after the birth of their first child, Azalea Joy, on Friday. Here’s the first pic of the [...]
Leafletwatch: The Liberal Democrats make it personal
AT every recent full council meeting, Conservative councillor Jonny Bucknell has been jeered from the Labour side as he stands up at the start, when members are asked to make [...]
Nice to be linked
READERS of the feature interview in the Guardian on Saturday may have wondered, after more than 2,000 odd words, what new they had learned about Holborn and St Pancras MP Sir [...]
‘Other councils come to learn from us’, Sarah responds to Sally challenge
AFTER Sally Gimson confirmed her decision to challenge for the Town Hall leadership in an email to Labour councillors this week, Sarah Hayward has now responded with her own [...]
Chasing Corbyn
EVERY day reporters wait outside Jeremy Corbyn’s home near Finsbury Park, which to some extent is fair enough if he is refusing to give conventional interviews to the [...]
Crocked Keir on crutches
HERE’S a meeting of crutches from Wednesday night’s Benugo meeting in Highgate, as Labour MP Keir Starmer meets a man wearing a t-shirt with the slogan [...]