Scruffy teachers rule OK?
ACLAND Burghley Secondary School in Tufnell Park is going through the mill at the moment under the intense glare of Ofsted and an extra programme of monitoring. There appears [...]
Camden
Inverness Street studios
ANOTHER moment to think awkwardly about what used to be in Inverness Street, Camden Town. The reason the council put up an arch at either end reading: ‘Inverness Street [...]
Old White Bear goes global
THE Tonight Show is moving back to New York. Pitcher Mark Mulder injured himself in training with the Los Angeles Angels. The Winter Olympics is running out of the salt [...]
My lost IDS invitation
O, postman, postman, wherefore art thou, postman? Something is very amiss. I’m sure the Camden Conservatives must have posted my press invite to hear Iain Duncan Smith [...]
FOI: ‘It’s a boy’ card was not lost in the post after all
SOME greasy/respectful [toggle to your taste] local authorities sent happy wishes to the Royal Family over the summer, using official notepaper and all that to mark the [...]
CLL’s ‘too much disrespect’ speech: a timely intervention or a patronising lecture?
ONE leftover from last week is Conservative group leader Claire-Louise Leyland’s speech at full council in which she appealed for a new way of doing things at Town Hall [...]
Away in the mayor’s parlour…
HERE’S a backstage snap from the mayor and mayoress’s Christmas card photo shoot, and the story in New Journal that probably drew the most smiles at the Town Hall [...]
For tonight’s performance, Baroness Margaret Thatcher will be played by…
THE Lib Dems say they oppose the plans for stricter busking rules on the basis that Camden’s plan, as it stands, is a ‘sledgehammer to crack a nut’. [...]
Mandela’s final triumph
CAST minds back three months and the last all member meeting at the Town Hall: Camden Council were lightly accused of ‘getting in early’ with their lengthy [...]
Sarah H: Who says I want a seat?
COUNCIL leader Sarah Hayward’s ravenous Twitter feed – is she the heaviest Twitter user among London’s local authority leaders – continues to keep these pages [...]