Morning update 29.09.15: Tulip vs Sian
WHO IS NEGLECTING WHO? AS mentioned a couple of posts ago, new Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq has been ramping up the media appearances in recent weeks. She was on the [...]
John Mills
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 [...]
Miliband at Haverstock: They booed Nick Robinson for asking about tax… but Ed really didn’t mind
CAMDEN’S Labour Party members, teachers at Haverstock School and some of its pupils got a taste of how the rolling press pack operates today, booing and whistling as Nick [...]
H&StP: The Siege of Bayham Street
FORMER Camden Tory leader Piers Wauchope’s notoriously pulped history of Camden politics – the imaginatively titled: Camden, a political history – grants [...]
The day Camden Council vandalised its own flats to beat the squatters
BRITISH Pathé has begun uploading 80,000 archive films to YouTube, a world history lesson to get lost in online. Have a dig – in between the clips of Pele playing in [...]
Former Camden Council finance chief: ‘Ed Miliband, the pgymy’
FORMER council finance chief John Mills gained a bit of respect from local journalists during his many years at the Town Hall for …and this might sound quite [...]
Dame Barbara and Cllr John
I never met Dame Barbara Mills – but thoughts are with her family after her death from a stroke last weekend. Her husband John, the former Labour councillor of three [...]
Sketch: We are The Cabinet
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 [...]
Labour’s Top Ten
THE suspense for local authority geeks is over. The Labour Party in Camden, I hear, has today worked out who is doing what executive jobs in the new look Town Hall and they [...]
Blackwell: Back in the race
IN the end, was it that he could not tear himself away from the addictive to and fro of Camden politics? Or does he believe the best is yet to come from Labour’s [...]