Barnet and Camden

Andrew Dismore ruled ‘out of order’ for reviving Shaun Bailey’s Diwali comments

November 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

ANDREW Dismore may have been nakedly point-scoring in the London Assembly chamber on Thursday but as he read Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey’s crude words [...]

Andrew Dismore won’t run again in Hendon

April 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

PRICKED ears among the several Labour councillors and members in north London interested in becoming general election after Andrew Dismore confirmed he will not be standing [...]

Welcome, editors, to City Hall

March 21, 2017 // 1 Comment

IT was very nice of the London Assembly to invite news providers to come in and explain the pressures facing local journalism in the capital, yet within minutes of the [...]

The Bugle

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

THE rooms of local authorities need to be opened up, so a word must go to Daniel Hope, the relentless blogger in Barnet who played his own, unique role in trying to bring [...]

Rosenberg publicly attacks local Labour Party for failing to discuss anti-semitism

May 31, 2016 // 5 Comments

WEST Hampstead Labour councillor Phil Rosenberg has got a few of his colleagues checking the rulebook after writing a searing blogpost for the Jewish News about what was [...]

Hillsborough: ‘Accidents happen’, says you know who

April 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

ONE of the reasons the Conservatives feel they have a better chance of ousting Labour from the Barnet and Camden seat on the London Assembly next week is that they no longer [...]

Boycott Israel? Green Party candidate changes his answer live on stage

April 12, 2016 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Labour runs out of questions?

February 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

IS everybody looking forward to next Monday night’s full council meeting? Labour councillor Heather Johnson must be, as she seems itching for a public opportunity in [...]

Dismore gets under Boris’s skin on fire cuts

January 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

YOU can almost see in Boris Johnson’s face sometimes that he is counting down the days to when he no longer has to answer questions from Barnet and Camden assembly [...]

Tories call in hipster envelope designers

January 26, 2016 // 1 Comment

DARE it be suggested that D-Dog and the Hampstead and Kilburn Conservative Association are rather gilding the lily with the design of their election correspondence ahead of [...]

Richard Osley

North London blog: Editor, Camden New Journal