The Town Hall after the pandemic
THE work to revamp the Town Hall building continues with the virus pandemic not standing in the way of a plan to get councillors back in Judd Street by 2022. They had just [READ ON]
Articles by Richard Osley
Cannot discuss…
SCRUTINY committee chairman Awale Olad likes to throw in a few ‘jokes’ every now again. He recently stopped a meeting to start a discussion over why Labour [READ ON]
Lib Dems suspend Luisa Porritt’s only opponent in mayoral selection race
IF you are a Liberal Democrat and want Luisa Porritt, the Belsize councillor, to be the party’s mayoral candidate in London, then I suppose it’s good news: her [READ ON]
Georgia Gould becomes chair of London Councils
CAMDEN leader Georgia Gould’s workload just got bigger after she won the vote to be the new chair of London Councils. The first cheeky DM I got back from one of her [READ ON]
The King of the Mountains
'Pensionable' councillor beats the steep gradients of Swains Lane once a week [READ ON]
Flick Rea to pass Lib Dem baton onto Luisa Porritt
IT’S a shame that tonight’s full council meeting is not back in the chamber because we would probably have witnessed quite a speech from Flick Rea. She will pass [READ ON]
Cllr Sensible selected by the leader to join cabinet
CAMDEN’S Labour AGM tonight lacks a dramatic internal vote for cabinet positions this year. Instead, Georgia Gould, the leader, has been given the power [READ ON]
Leader selects: Who wants a cabinet promotion?
MARCH 10, the last day this website had something new. It seems a long time ago. To think, on that date, I could write a piece about the Labour Party’s new AGM rules [READ ON]
‘They’ll be preening like pigeons’: Leader handed power to choose her own cabinet
A blogpost! Still here, folks.... and, yes, so are the Labour councillors on edge about how their AGM works. Last night, a new row opened up as the ruling group voted to move to a 'leader selects' model of deciding who sits on the cabinet. All the power goes to Georgia Gould - but how will she use it? [READ ON]
Extra, extra, read all about it!
IT’S a limited print run, but it’s out there in the boxes: the CNJ special. It’s old-fashioned, not webby, won’t get me a job at Buzzfeed, but [READ ON]
