Ken on Spurs
EX-MAYOR Ken Livingstone thinks it’s great that Championship-club-to-be West Ham United will move into the Olympic Stadium after next year’s Games. He said as [...]
Ken Livingstone
Mr Oona
THIS is Wes Streeting playing Oona King at Camden Town Hall. The wannabe Mayor sent Streeting, a twittering former NUS president, to deputise for her on Friday night. He [...]
Everybody’s talking about the frank words on p262
FRANK Dobson – a Health Secretary under Tony Blair – gets a withering assessment in that book. Payback for all those punches sustained from the backbenches, there is a [...]
Sure, sure, I’ll be there..
THERE’S a big bout at Camden Town Hall tomorrow night: KEN LIVINGSTONE versus OONA KING. Head to head. Live! Or is there? An email flier to Labour members specifically [...]
Last tram to Somers Town
A FEW people who read these pages were a little surprised to read that Labour councillor Roger Robinson is backing Oona King over Ken Livingstone in the mayoral candidate [...]
The Oona fanclub
WAS it something Ken Livingstone said? The longest current serving councillor at Camden Town Hall, somebody with direct memory of Ken’s own time as a Camden councillor, [...]
Can I be electric too?
KEN Livingstone drifted away from a pack of journalists asking about his plans for a London wide music festival yesterday to nose around the main hall of the Electric [...]
The Boris swerveball theory
INTERESTING theory being unpacked by Dave Hill for his London Blog at the Guardian right now: That Boris Johnson is planning to pitch a swerveball on Thursday and announce he [...]
Radio gold: No, Mr Livingstone, I expect you to lose…
SO I did check the LBC tape and Alastair Campbell did cough a resigned mutter about preferring Ken Livingstone ahead of Oona King in the mayoral candidate stakes. But rewind [...]
Obama-itis strikes again
SPEAKING of Ken and his mission to take back his old kingdom at City Hall, congratulations to anybody who didn’t go ugh-no-really? when they heard the campaign slogan [...]