Morning update 11.04.15: Maajid’s ‘stag night’
WHAT THE… OR SO WHAT? CAMDEN’S mayor Lazzaro Pietragnoli comes to the defence of Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate Maajid Nawaz this morning, after the [...]
Maajid Nawaz
When Paddy calls at midnight
THE morning update today included mention of Maajid Nawaz’s absence from last night’s Queens Park Resident Association hustings. He was doing a Channel 4 telly [...]
Morning update 11.04.15: The word on the street… and the farm, and the TV studio
MISSING MAAJID IF last night was Thursday, then it was the Queens Park Resident Association hustings for the increasingly battle-weary election candidates in Hampstead and [...]
Morning update 06.04.15: When Tulip is doing her pilates…
TULIP PROFILED THE big update today is the arrival of Tulip Siddiq in the national press. It’s not that she has not had mentions here and there over these last few [...]
Morning update 26.03.15: Friends reunited, Blair and McBride, Jess and Jeremy
MCPOISON STILL WANTS YOU TO ‘VOTE BLAIR’ REMEMBER the last night at O’Reilly’s in Kentish Town before it closed. Damian McBride, Gordon Brown’s [...]
Morning update 18.03.15: West Ham, the new Knightsbridge
EAST IS EAST FOREIGN Secretary Philip Hammond was perusing the house prices in West Hampstead yesterday afternoon as an estate agent told him how prices had gone up and up [...]
The BBC report that the Tories will wish they could play on repeat
RUMOUR has it that Team Tulip is feeling a little hard done by after the BBC zoned a special report in on Hampstead and Kilburn, but went hard and long on a) the intrigue [...]
Available now: Tulip merch
I SEE souvenir merchandise for the upcoming election has been made available to Labour Party members in Hampstead and Kilburn. The big question: In decades to come, Will you [...]
Tories on repeat: You know we were only 42 votes behind last time, right?
With the General Election now looming, William Hague became the first big name to hit up the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency for the Conservatives. He reminded us that the Tories were only 42 votes behind last time, but we had to ask why his party have been runners up here for more than two decades. [...]
Lib Dems in Glasgow: Lord Nawaz? No promises
MAAJID Nawaz was busy, busy in Glasgow this week. The Liberal Democrat with the highest profile beyond Nick Clegg [I joked], he had a journalist on his arm at every turn. [...]