Claire-Louise Leyland

CLL’s ‘too much disrespect’ speech: a timely intervention or a patronising lecture?

November 26, 2013 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

Don’t let the kids hear us bickering: Are Camden Council’s meetings too ‘hostile’ for children?

November 11, 2013 // 3 Comments

SHOULD full council meetings come with an 18 rating due to all the arguing? A dispute is raging behind the scenes at Camden Town Hall as to whether children who want to [...]

Sunday file 20/10/13: Jamie’s bacon banter, Glanz gets his big story and Sarah’s film reviews

October 20, 2013 // 3 Comments

Posting here on Sunday nights, bits and pieces, tweets and links that didn’t make a full post during the week. * FIRST off, I love it that the Jamie Oliver’s [...]

What happens at mayor-making, stays at mayor-making…

May 20, 2013 // 3 Comments

IT was a bit like a good wedding: some music, a DJ cutting between disco and swing, cupcakes, some more cupcakes, speeches that went on a bit, some speeches that ran close to [...]

Sheila’s warning: ‘I still have the sores from when I worked with John Major’

May 13, 2013 // 0 Comments

WHO was the last Conservative woman to win in Belsize before the group’s new leader Claire-Louise Leyland came along? It’s an easy one: Sheila Gunn. John [...]

Camden Tories have a ‘conversation’ and get a new leader

May 10, 2013 // 0 Comments

INTERESTING news filtering out of Camden’s Conservative group tonight with the party changing leaders at its AGM. With boroughwide elections now just a year away, it [...]

Camden gets its half-mast flag for Thatcher

April 16, 2013 // 5 Comments

THE Conservatives had their request for a minute’s silence for Baroness Thatcher at last night’s full council meeting rejected. Camden had already decided against [...]

The cops stay in the picture

April 25, 2012 // 3 Comments

A CORRESPONDENT texts through a blurry pic of Camden Town Underground station this morning – and asks ‘why are there so many coppers at the tube, they hiding from the [...]

Sketch: We are The Cabinet

June 10, 2010 // 0 Comments

THEY’VE got reet flashy up at the Camden Town Hall and begun calling what was the executive – the table of ten most senior councillors – by the new name of: The [...]

Here come the girls

May 11, 2010 // 2 Comments

ELECTORS in Haverstock: vote Jill, vote Sabrina, vote Joan, vote Jane… Elect three women in the late council election kick-off there and the gender split at the Camden [...]

Richard Osley

North London blog: Editor, Camden New Journal