H&K: Lib Dems edge closer to picking new candidate
THE relentless gossip and intrigue surrounding Labour’s contest to find a successor to Glenda Jackson in Hampstead and Kilburn has taken the glare away from the Liberal [READ ON]
Hampstead
The politician’s husband
IT’S not the done thing to be caught slighting your opponents in Labour nomination contests. But just in case anybody was thinking about trying to sneakily undermine [READ ON]
The great Hampstead police Inca skull hoax
WITH the days numbered for Hampstead police station, officers have been sharing stories about life over the years at the Rosslyn Hill nick. I like the one told to the New [READ ON]
H&K: Labour candidates claim same endorser
IN olden days, explorers would plant a flag in land they thought they had reached first and could claim for themselves. But it’s not immediately clear whether there is [READ ON]
Nighty-night Knighty
CHRIS ‘Knighty’ Knight is set to turn his Churchillian V for Victory sign into a wave goodbye to the Town Hall. The Hampstead councillor – one of the most [READ ON]
The Village Gym Preservation Society
HARK the timing of this! That man Ray Davies again, last seen being typically Ray Daviesy at his local theatre, was asked by the Evening Standard magazine on Friday which [READ ON]
Blake’s birthday
NOTORIOUS double agent George Blake celebrates his 90th birthday in Moscow this week, telling an official Russian government newspaper: “I’m a happy person, a [READ ON]
Simon’s day in the desert
SIMON ‘Mangalore’ Marcus was beaming ear to ear after winning the Hampstead Town by-election. He won it at a canter. But Cllr M hasn’t always made the final [READ ON]
Alastair Campbell, MP for Hampstead and Kilburn. Imagine that.
WAS there a sharp intake of breathe from Camden Labour Party members last week and a look of ‘does he mean us’ flashed at each other? I’m thinking of the [READ ON]
A note from Les Boys
I LOOK at this note scrawled by Mick Jagger on some Decca notepaper to recipients unknown and can’t help wondering what ‘Les Boys’ – to which I’m [READ ON]
