In pictures: the election count in 2010
IT seems like yesterday, and at the same time it seems like so long ago. As we all get ready to go counting at the Somers Town sports centre tomorrow night, a quick look back [...]
Andrew Marshall
Camden full council: live updates
March 2, 2015 22.00: All done for tonight. Strong start to the meeting with the sign of a genuine debate on the London Living Wage. Then we had the budget debate: there was a [...]
Camden full council: live updates
21.58: What do you know? No time for a full debate, the Mayor announces. As per usual, the Labour majority outflank the Tories in the vote, with a heavily amended [...]
Tory rebel: Cut back on cabinet councillors
WHEN Labour members in Camden get twitchy about these pages pointing out differences of opinion within their pride, a familiar shot is that such interest is not taken in the [...]
The itch in Camden’s Conservative group
ALTHOUGH everybody had a good laugh at barmy Bucknell’s blue hair last week at a post-election party, not everything is as nicey-smiley in the local Conservative [...]
Sunday file 6/10/13: Pickled unions, a ‘schizophrenic sidebar of shame’ and McBride’s Arsenal rant
Posting here on Sunday nights, bits and pieces, tweets and links that didn’t make a full post during the week. * IN case you didn’t see, Rising Damp star Don [...]
H&K: Lib Dems and Tories rage at violinist Nigel Kennedy over election vote admission
TROUBLE brewing in Belsize Park with rebellious violinist Nigel Kennedy revealing in an interview with the Guardian yesterday that he had arranged for a friend to vote for [...]
What happens at mayor-making, stays at mayor-making…
IT was a bit like a good wedding: some music, a DJ cutting between disco and swing, cupcakes, some more cupcakes, speeches that went on a bit, some speeches that ran close to [...]
Dynamite Don for Westminster North?
NOT unlike their Labour counterparts, Camden’s Conservative group at the Town Hall has a bit of a tradition for having councillors with one eye on a parliamentary [...]
Uncle Rob, the Tory
THE Conservatives choose their Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary candidate at an ‘open primary’ vote tonight. With the personal pledges flying about in his [...]