Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
SADLY, our press invitation to watch former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband’s latest return to Haverstock School (yup, he went back again) was mislaid in the post. He [...]
Ed Miliband
Away from home
LONG time, no post, but that’s because I’ve been distracted by the day job. After the annual Christmas slowdown, the news mill bounces back into an unrelentless [...]
The Year In Twitpics
…another year of sending pictures (and videos) to Twitter Helena Bonham-Carter caught up with her favourite weekly read. The now former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho [...]
Sadiq Khan and the doubting firefighters
IF Boris Johnson won’t talk to us about his views on the fire service in the wake of the Finchley Road inferno and the fatal blaze in Camden Town on the same day, we [...]
‘So I was at a party with Bing Crosby and Twiggy…’: Illtyd’s wicked words
AS our columnist Illtyd Harrington, the former deputy leader of the GLC and the architect of London’s freedom pass for the elderly, snapped at the hypocrisy and [...]
Morning update 01.10.15: The warnings that fell on deaf ears
* Tulip Siddiq privately warned Labour's general election campain team that the mansion tax and Ed Miliband were bombing on the doorstep
* Angela Pober's latest thoughts
* Tom Copley on the karaoke mic [...]
Postcard from Bournemouth: A bit of seaside deja vu for the nuclear war survivors
THERE’S ‘one hell of a buzz’, tweeted Paul Braithwaite, the former Camden councillor, about the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth, with the [...]
Morning update 17.09.15: Labour to the Greens, and back again
WHAT DOES RICHARD’S RETURN MEAN FOR THE GREENS? “I am not sure the party can ever reconnect with the Labour movement. There is no active organisation to reverse [...]
Morning update 14.09.15: Local councillors have their own mandate, says Theo
* Post-Corbyn win: Theo Blackwell says councillors have their own mandates
* John Mills pulls plug on Labour Party funding
* Ed Miliband: selfie magnet [...]
Morning update 03.09.15: City of refuge?
* City of refuge? What to do about Syria
* The former CNJ reporter helping victims of rape and sexual assault
* Theo's West Wing jibe probably has some sense to it.
* Where to find Camden Council's new HQ [...]