A shadowy council meeting
LIKE a late evening mixed doubles match at Wimbledon trying to finish a final set, Camden’s Pension Commitee soldiered on against bad light this evening. The lights in [READ ON]
Rishi Madlani
Election daily: Eyes on the prize
10 days to go… THE NINE WARDS IN PLAY? DAVE Hill, the former Guardian journalist and blogger now running the On London website, last week hosted a discussion in [READ ON]
Conservatives suspend ‘burn in hell’ activist
THE Tories have moved very quickly this morning, 00:30, it’s past midnight, and launched an investigation into the behaviour of one of its activists at the Gospel Oak [READ ON]
Down to Brighton, up to Manchester
FLASHBACK post, but I’ve been busy and conference season was an intriguing couple of weeks which shouldn’t go unrecorded. Intriguing because both in Brighton and [READ ON]
Rebellion over Labour selections halted… by a handful of votes
SO where are we with Labour’s arduous attempts to construct its council elections team? Last Thursday, Roger Robinson, Paul Tomlinson and Samata Khatoon were [READ ON]
Labour’s election squad: 54 for 54
THE first candidates for Labour’s council elections team will finally be selected this week. It’s always a bit of a bruising process and even before it kicks off [READ ON]
Is Camden in pole position to be named London Borough of Culture?
I CAME back from a summer holiday in a nice little corner of Europe this week to find that I need not have flown anywhere at all: sun-kissed Camden provides the perfect [READ ON]
Labour AGM: Race for the cabinet
TOMORROW night will see the coronation of Georgia I after nobody else came forward from Camden’s Labour group to stand for the leadership of the party – and the [READ ON]
Camden’s motion: The people vs Donald Trump
SUDDENLY, motions – and not walkouts – have become the Town Hall’s favoured strategy. Yes, that unloved part of Camden’s all member meetings, which are often [READ ON]
Reprobates united
While councillors were meant to come together to oppose Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban last night, Rishi Madlani grew so irritated with heckles from Gio Spinella that during one flashpoint he called him a 'reprobate' [READ ON]
