2016

The austerity round: Labour quiz night sets questions on child poverty and salary gaps

November 18, 2016 // 2 Comments

SAY what you want about members of the Labour Party in Camden, but those dudes sure know how to let their hair down. Yesiree, for a busy fund-raiser at the Acol Bridge club [...]

‘This f****** guy…’: How Camden’s politicians reacted to Trump’s US election win

November 14, 2016 // 3 Comments

FOR all the political squabbles that play out at the Town Hall, the important ones and the silly ones, you will be pressed to find a councillor in Camden willing to toast [...]

Here at the end of a pretty cobbled street…

November 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

‘ALL characters are fictitious and any resemblance to actual elected officials is purely coincidental,’ says the caption on YouTube, as opponents to the [...]

The first man to swear on TV? Barry Bucknell was too posh to drop the c-bomb

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

THERE are no hard feelings between Conservative councillor Jonny Bucknell and writer David Mathieson, who says in his new book Radical London In The 1950s that Jonny’s [...]

Tulip scores the big life story feature… again

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

HAMPSTEAD and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq continues to get the best of her press coverage. This week, she enjoyed another soapy feature interview about her life, this time on the [...]

What do they want? Full traffic modelling. And when do they want it…?

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

THE little blogging break here after conference season should not mean Oliver Cooper should go without an award for the most convoluted protest banner of the year. Whichever [...]

Stephen Phillips quits, a political path which began in Hampstead

November 4, 2016 // 1 Comment

STEPHEN Phillips announces this afternoon that he will trigger another parliamentary by-election by stepping down in the safe Tory territory of Sleaford and North Hyekham in [...]

Who is Camden’s Air Quality Councillor now?

November 3, 2016 // 1 Comment

THE CNJ got a little bit of stick on its own letters page for not being at a Labour Party meeting on the fallout from the EU referendum a couple of weeks ago, as we were [...]

It’s terribly important we beat Spurs

November 2, 2016 // 3 Comments

WITH the mics still on after Prime Minister’s Questions earlier today (Wednesday), Jeremy Corbyn could be heard discussing important things with Speaker John Bercow: [...]

‘Trotfest’ at the local government Oscars

November 2, 2016 // 6 Comments

OSCAR night for local councillors ended in disappointment for the mystery man, woman or people who nominated Camden’s Sarah Hayward to be crowned leader of the year. [...]

Richard Osley

North London blog: Editor, Camden New Journal