Labour’s approved list
YOU will probably have seen the…. disquiet… about a record number of deselections among Camden’s Labour Party. Paul Tomlinson, Roger Robinson and Leo [READ ON]
Articles by Richard Osley
The music didn’t stop
THE annual mayoral civic function in Camden is a bit like a wedding reception: a decent spread, some squiffy rum punch, people you haven’t seen for years pop up like ghosts from the past and everybody smiles sweetly at each other for whoever’s special day it is.
Sort of sweetly. [READ ON]
Abdul Hai’s farewell letter
THE boroughwide elections get closer but one big name won’t be on the ballot paper. Here’s cabinet councillor Abdul Hai’s letter to colleagues: Dear [READ ON]
‘The conference photo’
Not sure quite why we started it, but 'the conference photo' is now a thing – here's a flashback [READ ON]
Don’t make us go to the Town Hall
ANGER among councillors in Camden last night after the government said remote video meetings should end on May 7 – effectively an order to get back to the Town Hall [READ ON]
Leila
Tributes have flooded in for Leila Roy after the sudden death of the former councillor on Friday evening – raise a glass to her if you don't want everybody in the Town Hall chamber to look and sound the same [READ ON]
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]
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]
Richard Osley 