Cabinet contests
WHILE Sally Gimson versus Sarah Hayward will be the main event at the Labour group’s annual general meeting next week, the undercard action will also be of some [...]
Angela Mason
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 [...]
Exit On Judd Street: the gifts list
TO the Town Hall, for a little Friday afternoon peek at the register councillors use to openly declare any gifts they are handed as part of the job or any hospitality [...]
Crunch time in Cantelowes: Labour riser vs Lib Dem ‘irritant’
ONE of the mini-battles at next year’s boroughwide council elections will be in the Cantelowes ward. The issue for Labour is to try and remove Lib Dems who stubbornly [...]
Council horseplay
SOME might gently suggest it’s all ammo for the Tax-Payers Alliance sorts who believe all public spending holes could be fixed if only local authorities and governments [...]
Gay parents: ‘Lefty’ Camden Council vs angry people in the United States
IT’S usually nice when you see the New Journal spreading over the borough boundaries. Last week there were calls (ok, one person in the comments section of a website) [...]
Sarah’s top table
PHIL Jones and Valerie Leach will be the fresh faces in the new council cabinet in Camden. While there was much focus on who would take up the leadership of the Labour [...]
The cops stay in the picture
A CORRESPONDENT texts through a blurry pic of Camden Town Underground station this morning – and asks ‘why are there so many coppers at the tube, they hiding from the [...]
A catch-up: Carry On being a feminist and the staggering number of gays in London
NO blogging for a week or so… a few things had to be sorted out: Easter eggs had to be eaten, feminists at Camden School for Girls had to be interviewed and Arsenal had [...]
Notes from full council
No blogging for a bit… but there were a few bits from Monday’s full council meeting in need of telling. * ABDUL Quadir has a different approach to the last [...]