Tulip: Labour should not stand against Greens in Brighton Pavilion
HOW will those talks which the Greens are ready to have with Labour over the political landscape in Hampstead and Kilburn go? Relations will surely be warmer today after [...]
Election: Hampstead and Kilburn
Here we go again: Will snap general election save Tulip?
SIX weeks, then, until it’s Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn – or, as the polls suggest, Labour lose again at Theresa May’s snap election. The hot takes were [...]
Morning update 06.10.15: To Manchester
* Lord Adonis, the crossbencher Baron of Camden Town
* D-Dog in the 1980s * Jonny Bucknell sleeping in his car (again)
* Could Mike Greene have won Hampstead and Kilburn for the Tories?
* Ooooh Macarena, the protest song * The trouble with AirBNBs at conference [...]
Morning update 01.10.15: The warnings that fell on deaf ears
* Tulip Siddiq privately warned Labour's general election campain team that the mansion tax and Ed Miliband were bombing on the doorstep
* Angela Pober's latest thoughts
* Tom Copley on the karaoke mic [...]
Morning update 15.09.15: Independence Day
* Labour councillor questions whether voters in West Hampstead would back Angela Pober as an independent
* Ava Vidal says people criticising Jeremy Corbyn for his lack of women should look at Harriet Harman's record [...]
Morning update 13.09.15: A question Tulip might have to get used to
* Tulip Siddiq snaps at Tom Smith as he goads her about Corbyn nomination * Keir Starmer calls for unity behind unity * Thornberry: No room for sulks in the Labour Party * Paul Braithwaite needles council leader over support for Kendall [...]
The ‘no notes’ maiden speech: Orwell, Stopes…. and Bradley Wiggins
THE first maiden speech by someone representing Hampstead in more than 20 years was worthy reason to spend the day at the Commons last week. Here’s how Tulip [...]
Tulip goes to Tower Hamlets
NEW Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq often downplays her celebrity in Bangladesh, where her aunt is prime minister. She says her fame should not be leveled higher than [...]
Could – should – the Conservatives have won Hampstead and Kilburn?
‘WHEN’S the boss coming down?’ It became a bit of a catchphrase whenever I saw Conservative Simon Marcus on the election campaign trail. Nag, nag, nag, I [...]
Quiet weeps: Ed Fordham on ‘being beaten’
THE latest slump for the Camden Liberal Democrats in last week’s election results suggests we may be waiting some time before a repeat of the drama which coated a [...]