Labour schemers twist charity match with ‘ringer’ scam
OF all the leaked emails which reveal Labour’s scheming behind the scenes, this must be the most dastardly to find its way into the dropbox. Secret messages reveal how [...]
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Say ‘Hi’ to Auntie
“SAY hi to auntie,” Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq presumably peeped as she waved Keir Starmer off on his “fostering relations” mission to Bangladesh last [...]
Confirmed: Sally ‘seriously considering’ leadership challenge
After all those rumours, Sally Gimson has confirmed today that she is ‘seriously considering’ challenging council leader Sarah Hayward at the Labour group’s [...]
H & St P: The briefings, the pokes, the myths and the nudges of Labour’s clean fight
SO, we are almost there, tomorrow is the big day for the final five in the race to succeed Frank Dobson. Labour’s protracted selection campaign finally reaches its [...]
Camden’s ‘Facebore’ takes the Ice Bucket challenge
WE never said Robert Latham was a ‘Facebook-bore’, or a ‘Facebore’ for short. We simply suggested drenching people’s personal feeds with [...]
And now the ice bucket challenge reaches Camden’s councillors
IN answer to the last post – where you can now see two top-ranked Islington councillors splashed with ice water – Tulip Siddiq has sidestepped the Ice Bucket [...]
Labour AGM: First names on the teamsheet
THE Labour AGM always has its winners and losers, however they decide to handle the edgy issue of choosing who should have a seat at Camden’s council cabinet. Maybe it [...]
Another goodbye as the Lib Dems lose Chris Naylor in Camden Town
IF the Greens are going to miss the local profile of Maya De Souza in Highgate next month, the Liberal Democrats will feel a similar loss in Camden Town without Chris Naylor [...]
HS2: Nash roars
NASH Ali let loose on Sir David Higgins, the HS2 boss, last week, channeling a bit of Oscar Wilde (price of everything, value of nothing) and Martin Luther King (judged on [...]
Mandela walked this way
IF you walked down Lyme Street last week you would have seen a ‘to let’ sign (below, right) at the very spot Nelson Mandela stopped at in Camden Town ten years [...]