The Year In Twitpics
…another year of sending pictures to Twitter. SNOW at the start of the year, and a fox – a fox in the snow! – in Bounds Green. Less pretty scenes in Crouch [...]
David Miliband
The Milibands and the Mail
IT’S a curious old thing when a newspaper agrees to publish a right to reply to an article, but then publishes it next to a re-print of the piece that had caused the [...]
H&K: The expensive way to win an election
PERHAPS it’s no surprise that the three-way kitchen sink battle for the Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary constituency at the last election – eventually won by [...]
H&K: Tulip prevails… a year after missing out on council leadership
TULIP pulled it off. As she finally became Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn yesterday, the size of her victory was, in the end, pretty [...]
Fortismere’s greatest XI: Rod Stewart running the defence, Ray Davies in midfield
FOOTBALL bores often spend inexplicable amounts of time – the kind of time and energy which if better used could probably find a solution to global warming [...]
Miliband election day
LABOUR didn’t need David Miliband to hold South Shields last night. It won there like it always wins there. It has won there whoever has worn the red rosette for [...]
Kiss chase 1971
I BLAME the Ham & High, but for a moment yesterday afternoon I was staring out of the New Journal‘s window and allowing my mind to wander into a stupid ‘what [...]
TURN THEM OFF, TURN THEM ON: David Miliband and Jonny Bucknell’s comedy double act in Primrose Hill
ONE time foreign secretary and former Labour Party leadership candidate David Miliband was the choice to turn on the Christmas lights in Primrose Hill this afternoon… [...]
Lincoln Lucy: not completely not local
SPEAKING about old Camden Council leader Raj Chada in a post last week, I was reminded of the time he tried to win a Labour selection battle Darlington. The locals moaned [...]
How the Tories see the Camden Town and Primrose Hill by-election
AN EMAIL arrives in the dropbox from a player in the Camden Conservative party. It reads simply: “August – Ed Miliband’s Labour councillor resigns. April – [...]