The ghost of Christmas future
SALLY Rose White is the ghost of Christmas past. She haunts me, and others should feel the same; more so. Fifteen years ago, at Christmas time, the killer who ended her [...]
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Booing at the Kilburn State: You’re only as good as your worst behaved supporter?
YOU may have heard the joke doing the rounds: How do you get thousands of people to turn up to an Owen Smith rally? Tell them Jeremy Corbyn is going to be there. The response from Corbyn's opponents is usually a 1980s picture of Michael Foot in front of a crowd with a sarcastic comment about the packed out assembly halls which lined his path to government. This has been one of the milder exchanges between two sides of the same party over these last few weeks.
But what of these large rallies like the one at the old Gaumont State Cinema on the Kilburn High Road on Sunday evening? [...]
‘Theresa May’s leather skirt was too much for Holborn and St Pancras’
WITH Theresa May heading to Number 10, the Conservatives continue to recall the time they passed her over for the far less attractive role of standing for the party in [...]
Happy with the result? Tories hold end of referendum party in Hampstead
UPDATED: AFTER the blog below about the fizzy party held at the Tory office in Hampstead at the end of the EU referendum, which Conservative councillor Oliver Cooper claimed [...]
You know what? Let’s just call it… ‘planning’
YOU will often see reports of what’s happening at the council’s “planning” meeting in the Camden New Journal, but the official name for this panel of councillors who [...]
FOI: I nearly choked on my marriage vows
TECH-LEADING Camden Council has a whole online mine of consultations for you to take part in. One of them lasted for a whole year, a survey on the performance of its wedding [...]
Cub reporters
THE foxes who pop up in the CNJ garden in Camden Town have been introducing some new family members this afternoon… [...]