The year in Twitpics
…another year of sending pictures to Twitter draws to a close. PJ and Duncan turned up in Inverness Street, Camden Town, at the start of the year. They wanted to create [...]
John Major
So you want to be a (local) political journalist?
FRIENDS and family of former Belsize councillor Sheila Gunn gathered in Gloucestershire today for a memorial service. The former Times journalist and press secretary to John [...]
Sheila
“IT was just one of those ideas that came into my head,” Sheila Gunn confessed. “It wasn’t based on any justification. It wasn’t really much [...]
Tories ready to choose Holborn and St Pancras candidate
HOLBORN and St Pancras is a bruising battleground for the Conservatives. Frank Dobson has seen them all off over the years. Yet it remains a reasonably attractive training [...]
Manchester ’13: Margot returns to Holborn and St Pancras
IN shoe-boots and leather leggings, Margot James was turning heads in the conference exhibition hall this week. The deputy chairman of the Conservatives is an important face [...]
Sheila’s warning: ‘I still have the sores from when I worked with John Major’
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 [...]
The Home Secretary forgives Holborn
THE Home Secretary was in Hampstead tonight geeing up Camden’s Conservatives at a summer soiree. Theresa May told them “never to forget” Liam [...]
Frank and The Guardian
IS Frank Dobson still angry with The Guardian for endorsing the Liberal Democrats before last May’s General Election? Speaking at the launch meeting of Camden United [...]
‘SIX MORE WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT’
I HADN’T seen this old BBC footage before it was mentioned by Labour councillor Sarah Hayward on Twitter: Glenda Jackson winning her place in Parliament for the first [...]
The Holborn trail
FORMER policeman George Lee couldn’t squeeze past the Lib Dems to move the Conservatives up to second place in Holborn and St Pancras constituency last week. Never [...]