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 [READ ON]
Camden
Clear the shelves
Asking the council whether it would be keeping Jimmy Savile’s autobiography, As It Happens, and Rolf Harris’s childhood memoir in its libraries this week might [READ ON]
Postcard from Brighton: Labour reach for the stars
From Thursday’s CNJ HERE on the Brighton seafront this week, we found a group of people so dented by division that some of their more familiar members are no longer [READ ON]
Will Islington’s Labour candidate farm send someone to Holborn and St Pancras?
WITH Emily Thornberry now looking rather set up for life as the Islington South MP – memories of two duels with the Lib Dems are fading – the Labour politicians [READ ON]
Maajid: ‘We shall fight them on the beaches’
SOME stirring words and fighting talk now, with a rousing email to Liberal Democrat councillors and unsuccessful candidates from Maajid Nawaz, the parliamentary candidate in [READ ON]
How slither killers are made
MY dear colleague, Tom Foot, what have you done this time? His story in Thursday’s New Journal about Aesculapian snakes living near Camden Lock has slithered its way [READ ON]
UKIP’s Magnus status update: ‘Islam is organised crime’
WE now know that the record number of council election candidates promised by Ukip for Camden is six. Their previous biggest slate in the borough was two. This time, [READ ON]
Maya’s farewell and the fight in Highgate she leaves behind
FIRST of all, as much as we prod and challenge the councillors at the Town Hall, and morph them into pomegranates, the commitment and service shown by the ones that do the [READ ON]
UKIP promise ‘record amount’ of council election candidates in Camden* *More than two
TEN years after UKIP’s mayoral candidate, boxing promoter Frank Maloney, said he would not campaign in Camden because the borough had “too many gays”, the [READ ON]
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 [READ ON]
