The new, new Camden cabinet
COUNCIL leader Georgia Gould will today line up her new cabinet at the Town Hall in their new positions... just 127 days after announcing her first new cabinet in May. While [...]
Meric Apak
Who is Camden’s Air Quality Councillor now?
THE CNJ got a little bit of stick on its own letters page for not being at a Labour Party meeting on the fallout from the EU referendum a couple of weeks ago, as we were [...]
The £200 million bin deal headache
IT is often said backstage that Meric Apak wanted the housing portfolio when he was elevated to Camden’s cabinet last May, but the decision didn’t lie with him and [...]
How many councillors does it take to fix a…
FARCE alert! Camden’s full council meeting was brought to a temporary halt this evening after Labour councillor Lorna Russell, for it was she wot dunnit, spilt water [...]
‘Good luck getting Richard Branson to sponsor our toilets…’
IF the penny hadn’t dropped already, it may be dawning on new council cabinet member Meric Apak what a hospital pass he has been given with the environment brief. He [...]
Camden full council: live updates
June 22, 2015 20.59: We’re all done here. Go and watch England in the Women’s World Cup. 20.52: RTB debate: Old adversaries Julian Fulbrook and Andrew Mennear [...]
Recounts at Camden Labour’s AGM
AT first glance, Camden’s Labour group is united at last, with nobody challenging the personnel of its cabinet at tonight’s annual general meeting; a marked [...]
Who keeps Labour in power in Camden? The ‘bulge generation’
LABOUR councillors in Camden meet tonight for their annual general meeting. It could be one of the quickest and smoothest sessions of this kind they’ve had in a long [...]
Labour AGM: Meric moves up; Maeve takes on Abdul
MERIC Apak will join the Labour cabinet Town Hall. As suggested on these pages before, he is the only Labour councillor to have put himself forward for a promotion at next [...]
Morning update 22.04.15: Not quite Sheffield ’92
WE’RE ALLL RIIIGHT THE most neurotic Labour supporters in Hampstead and Kilburn over-worried that a glitzy party in The Good Shop just over two weeks before voting [...]